I've seen that certain Rails CMSes (like Radiant) have plugins that essentially compile Sass when a page is accessed. Is there a way to do this in a regular rails app? Is doing so performant? Basically, I'm looking at a way to remove the extra step of running Compass to compile my stylesheets.
I've not used compass specifically but there looks like there's a production flag so files are compiled - I couldn't imagine they'd build it to recompile per request in production, Radiant compiles it's css on Application startup and if you then commit those generated CSS files it doesn't try to generate them again AFAIK.