Are you aware of any plans for Compass to remove the Ruby dependency?

I don't know, but I suspect it doesn't looks positive. Compass haven't had any new releases for a year now.

Not true--there have been a series of alpha and now RC releases of 0.13. Chris and Nathan and the others are working on both Sass and Compass in parallel.

Thanks!

I just tried the pre-release version of 0.13. I found it was installing something with native binding? I believe it was one of the dependencies on Compass. I don't think this works well for us as our build process relies on Maven with JRuby to power Compass.

I think a better direction would be for projects to remove their compass dependency.