Imagine coming into work on your first day as a front-end designer or dev and getting your Rails development system up and running for the first time. You’re really excited to start working on something in the app or website that you’re responsible for. After firing up Terminal or a Git GUI, you pull down the latest code and start making some changes to the stylesheets. It just so happens that the stylesheets are written in Sass and they’ll need to compile somehow. Since you are using Rails, that would be the asset pipeline. You hit save and go to the browser, hit refresh…
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