diff --git a/Gruntfile.js b/Gruntfile.js
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+module.exports = function(grunt) {
+
+  // load all grunt tasks
+  require('matchdep').filterDev('grunt-*').forEach(grunt.loadNpmTasks);
+
+  grunt.initConfig({
+    
+    compass: {
+      dev: {
+        options: {
+          config: 'sphinx_rtd_theme/sass/config.rb',
+          basePath: 'sphinx_rtd_theme/sass',
+          force: true
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    
+    // I use this to build the sphinx_rtd_theme available at https://github.com/snide/sphinx_rtd_theme
+    copy: {
+      sphinx_rtd_theme : {
+        files: [
+          {
+            expand: true,
+            cwd: 'docs/source/_themes/wyrm_theme', 
+            src: ['**', '!**/theme.sass', '!**/*.css', '!**/config.rb'],
+            dest: '../sphinx_rtd_theme/sphinx_rtd_theme'
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+
+    exec: {
+      update: {
+        cmd: 'bower update'
+      }
+    }
+
+  });
+
+  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy');
+  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-exec');
+  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-compass');
+
+  grunt.registerTask('default', ['exec', 'compass']);
+
+}
+
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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+{
+  "name": "sphinx_rtd_theme",
+  "version": "0.0.11",
+  "private": true,
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "grunt": "~0.4.1",
+    "grunt-contrib-compass": "~0.2.0",
+    "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.4.3",
+    "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.2.0",
+    "grunt-exec": "~0.4.2",
+    "grunt-contrib-connect": "0.5.0",
+    "grunt-contrib-copy": "0.4.1",
+    "matchdep": "~0.1.2"
+  }
+}
+