grunt-contrib-compass fails with compass css3 mixins

[silicakes]

The Issue

While requesting a css3 mixin located under: /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-core-1.0.3/stylesheets/compass/_css3.scss

the following error appears:

Running "compass:dist" (compass) task
error src/styles/main.scss (Line 251 of src/styles/_theme.scss: Undefined mixin 'border-image'.)
Compilation failed in 1 files.
Warning: ↑ Use --force to continue.

Environment

• OS: OSX 10.10.1
• ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p481 (2014-05-08 revision 45883) [universal.x86_64-darwin14]
• grunt --version: grunt-cli v0.1.13 | grunt v0.4.5
• grunt-contrib-compass version: 1.0.3
• compass version: Compass 1.0.3 (Polaris)

  Gruntfile.js configuration

compass: {
        options: {
            sassDir: 'src/styles',
            cssDir: 'dist/styles',
            generatedImagesDir: 'dist/images/generated',
            imagesDir: 'src/images',
            javascriptsDir: 'src/scripts',
            fontsDir: 'src/fonts',
            importPath: './bower_components',
            httpImagesPath: '/images',
            httpGeneratedImagesPath: '../images/generated',
            httpFontsPath: '/fonts',
            relativeAssets: false,
            assetCacheBuster: false,
            raw: 'Sass::Script::Number.precision = 10\n'
        },
        dist: {
            options: {
                generatedImagesDir: "dist/images/generated"
            }
        }
    }

.scss declaration

.gradient-solid-hairline-border {
   @include base-border($border-color: $dark-secondary-color); //custom mixin, from somewhere above
   @include border-image(linear-gradient($light-green-color, $dark-secondary-color));
}

This issue was reproduced with additional css3 styles from the aforementioned path

[silicakes]

solution

Compass has a default path through which it looks for stylesheets ones it can't find it locally.

It's possible to include files from the compass spreadsheet directory with the same syntax provided by their documentation:

@import "compass/css3";

This should be added to grunt-contrib-compass' documentation