For a linux noob it was pretty tricky to get the "jQuery for CSS" Sass+Compass combo running.
After some messing around, I discovered the best way to do it was:

Install ruby RVM: https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/
-Tell RVM to download and enable the latest stable ruby, and set it as default for all accounts. Use quickstart user without sudo to do this installation.
-install gem
-install compass (and sass) gems

I might have forgotten something already, but those were the most important steps as far as I can remember.

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MichaelCole commented
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Hi, these standards are still being worked out. There is an alternative LESS. Maybe when the standards settle down.

Of course, you can modify your own dev env to your needs :-)

Mike

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traviscarden commented

For the record, all it took for me to install Compass on Quickstart 2.x was sudo gem install compass.

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mike stewart commented

For the record, the Quickstart 2.x that I belevie Travis is referring to no longer exists. However it already had compass installed. DrupalPro is available and has the latest version of sass/compass pre-installed.

Using the method Travis suggested (I believe) installs an old version of sass. However, I wonder what Travis did by running that on top of an already installed sass environment? (I suspect it only appeared to have installed sass, but didn't since it was already installed).

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MichaelCole commented

Awesome Travis, thanks for the tip!

Mike

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snlnz commented

Interesting. So what are the benefits of using drupalpro as opposed to quickstart seen as you've mentioned them here @Mike Stewart.

I've been using quickstart for a long time now and big thanks to @MichaelCole for the contrib but I'm always open to better or smarter ways of workflow.
Perhaps a new thread could be on the cards?

I'm looking into compass/sass options for both linux and mac. :)

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jurriaanroelofs commented

Less is the inferior standard, sass and compass are definitely the way to go, especially in Drupal. Im not sure if travis his command is the way to go because often the yum/apt-get packages are outdates.

You might wNt to add Susy as well as it seems to be a leading grid system framework in sass.

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mike stewart commented

re: #5 @snlnz - the Drupalpro project page identifies many of the differences (such as including sass/compass). However, its worth noting that Quickstart, which is based on 11.04, will no longer be getting any kind of support from Ubuntu after October this year (read: no security patches). Drupalpro is based on 12.04LTS -- which has a life cycle that ends in April 2017.