There are a number of Sass and Compass grid systems available. Everyone has their favorite and mine is Susy. It’s simple to use, produces clean code and is extremely flexible and well documented. See the boxout section for information on some others but understand that for this chapter we will chiefly be working with Susy (because it’s been scientifically tested to be 99.99% amazing*).
Susy was principally created by Eric A. Meyer (not to be confused with the ‘CSS reset’ Eric A. Meyer), a core member of the Compass team.
I mention this for two reasons, firstly, by way of a hat tip to him and secondly, to let you know that you are in safe hands. Susy works beautifully with Sass and Compass projects and I find it the easiest way to build responsive grids.
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There are plenty of other grid systems for Sass and Compass we won’t be looking at. If Susy doesn’t do it for you (seriously, what is wrong with you?), consider looking at Zen Grids (http://zengrids.com) or the one that comes...