Configuring Compass on Windows

I'm on Windows, and I have SASS running successfully in my project. Now, I want to include compass so I can take advantage of the pre-written mixins, etc.

First I simply tried this statement from within my working sass file: @import "compass/css3/transform";

Naturally, this didn't work since I didn't have compass installed, so I navigated to my Ruby directory and successfully installed the compass gem within c:/ruby193/bin. I can now successfully create compass projects within c:/ruby193/bin, but that doesn't do me much good.

I need run compass commands within my site, which lives here: c:/inetpub/mysite. When I try to do so, however, I get compass is not recognized as internal or external command

How can I get compass to work where I want it?

EDIT: a large part of my problem was that Ruby was installed without adding itself to the Windows Path environment variables, so I could only run SASS and Compass commands from within the C:/Ruby193/bin directory. This caused problems for me since, as a result, I thought that was where I needed to install compass. Anyhow, after figuring that out, I still haven't been able to get compass to work, but am planning on uninstaling SASS, Compass, and Ruby and giving this thing another try from scratch. I marked Stooboo's answer as correct since it was the best and most accurate, especially given the information he had to work with. Thanks!

Solution

here's how I do it

(One time)

install ruby http://rubyinstaller.org/
install compass, in a command window enter
```
gem install compass
```
to add compass to an MVC project, navigate to project folder and in a command window enter
```
compass create
```
you will get the default config.rb ... but here is my usual one
```
http_path = "/"
css_dir = "content/css"
sass_dir = "content/sass"
images_dir = "images"
javascripts_dir = "scripts"
```
to install bootstrap (for more info see https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass) add
```
require 'bootstrap-sass'
```
to your config.rb

enter (in your command window)
```
gem install bootstrap-sass
```
(I had to do a (in your command window) gem update after this but you may not need to)

enter (in your command window)
```
compass install bootstrap
```

(then ... every time you open the solution in Visual Studio)

navigate to project folder
in a command window enter
```
compass watch
```
(this will monitor project for saves and re-compile the scss files)

Hope that helps

Cheers Stu