# Using compass with ember-cli, what is the best way?

**URL:** <https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/using-compass-with-ember-cli-what-is-the-best-way/8831>\
**Category:** Ember CLI\
**Created:** [September 23, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/using-compass-with-ember-cli-what-is-the-best-way/8831 "2015-09-23T18:25:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![FullOfCaffeine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/fullofcaffeine/32/11277_2.png) [@FullOfCaffeine](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/FullOfCaffeine)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/using-compass-with-ember-cli-what-is-the-best-way/8831/1 "2015-09-23T18:25:35Z")

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Hi there!

I managed to use compass with Ember by using this: [https://github.com/fullofcaffeine/ember-cli-compass-compiler](https://github.com/fullofcaffeine/ember-cli-compass-compiler) (it’s a fork of the original because I needed to add a small fix).

It works, but compass is slow. It adds several ms to the `ember-cli` compilation process, and sometimes this is a productivity killer. I suspect that’s probably because of the Ruby sass compiler. When I was using `ember-cli-sass`, which is based on `node-sass` (binding to `libsass`), it was much faster.

I do need Compass though, since I have a pretty big library of sass scripts that rely on the compass API.

Ideally I’d use node-sass instead of the Ruby sass compiler, but I’m not sure how to do that now.

I’m pretty sure other people have gone through the same since Compass is a pretty popular and nice library. I was wondering what has been your experience and if you manage to use `libsass` with compass successfully?