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gbog
From the article: "This works on a Mac easily, because Ruby is already installed on OS X out-of-the-box. If you are on Windows, you will first need the Ruby Installer."

Where is Linux?

karterk
He is trying to pitch SASS to the design community - and most designers use OS X or Windows.
tghw
> Where is Linux?

For desktop use? In third place. Plus, most people on Linux know how to install new software. Finally, the package managers included with many popular distributions of Linux make finding and installing packages like Ruby so easy that it's not even worth describing how to do.

tptacek
For whatever this is worth: you really don't need to have your third-party designers using Sass to ship a Sass product. You have other options:

(a) You can convert the designer's CSS to Sass (designer CSS is going to be suboptimal anyways)

(b) You can convert some of the designer's CSS to Sass (the parts you're going to be "playing" with, like box and form styles) and leave the rest static.

(c) You can leave the designer's CSS intact as a static CSS file and then extend and override it with Sass.

One of the more common bits of Haml/Sass FUD is that "designers won't use it", which is true, but irrelevant.

(Having said all that: the last designer I worked with was excited to learn Sass, and did a great job with it).

bryne
I was on the fence until the bit about automatic spritesheeting via Compass. This is awesome.
tghw
If you want to give SASS a try (specifically the SCSS dialect), we support it at WebPutty.net. (Yes, I'm a dev on WebPutty and am totally biased, but I actually do think the live preview makes it a good learning tool.)