Setting up Foundation

Your mileage may vary depending on how your system is set up. This is what ended up working for me after some measure of frustration and patchwork trial-and-error.

make sure node on windows is version 0.10.25

sudo apt-get install nodejs nodejs-dev npm
npm install -g bower grunt-cli

sudo apt-get install rvm
rvm get stable
sudo apt-get install ruby-compass
rvm use ruby --install
gem install sass --version 3.2.12 (<-- I imagine this is subject to change.. this (not the newest version) worked on 30 Sep, 2014)
sudo gem install compass
sudo gem install foundation (or sudo gem install zurb-foundation) (permission issues.....)

rvm -v     : 1.25.35
ruby -v    : 2.1.3p242
sass -v    : 3.2.12
compass -v : 1.0.1

The syntax is then:

compass create splendific-project

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When working with a new local copy of a site on git:

git clone git@cvs2:WP-Themes/SomeSite.git somesite
npm install
bower init
grunt build
grunt