As long as gem and rvm are already set up (see RubyGems and RVM on Ubuntu), all you need to do is:
gem install compass
gem install compass-susy-plugin
gem install stitch
Most recently on Ubuntu: This worked with sudo.
Background
Main Gotcha:
compass-susy-plugin does not show on gem list
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