A SASS mixin for generating a sprite declaration block that will work with media queries, in SCSS

get-sprite.scss

// http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/sprites/
@mixin get-sprite($map, $sprite, $repeat: no-repeat, $height: true, $width: true)
{

  //http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/sprites/#sprite-file
  $sprite-image: sprite-file($map, $sprite); 
  
  // http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/sprites/#sprite-url
  $sprite-map: sprite-url($map);
  
  // http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/sprites/#sprite-position
  $sprite-position: sprite-position($map, $sprite);
  
  // Returns background
  background: $sprite-map $sprite-position $repeat;
  
  // http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/image-dimensions/
  // Checks to see if the user wants height returned
  @if ($height == true){

    // Gets the height of the sprite-image
    $sprite-height: image-height($sprite-image);
    // Returns the height
    height: $sprite-height;
  }
    
  // http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/image-dimensions/
  // Checks to see if the user wants height returned
  @if ($width == true){

    // Gets the height of the sprite-image
    $sprite-width: image-width($sprite-image);
    // Returns the width
    width: $sprite-width;
  }
}