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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Getting Started with Sass Installing and Using Sass

Tyler Anyan
Tyler Anyan
2,976 Points
Posted by Tyler Anyan
Tyler Anyan
2,976 Points

cannot get sass to work

I am trying to get sass set up on my system but I cannot get past the portion of the video in which he has you type the following command into the terminal: sass --watch . . At this point I get the following error: LoadError: no such file to load -- fssm Run "gem install fssm" to get it. Use --trace for backtrace.

I have scoured the internet ad nauseum to try and figure this out and none of the solutions I've found seem to work. I am a designer first and a dev second so at this point I feel like my head is about to explode from all this terminal work, if someone can help with this it would be greatly appreciated.

2 Answers

Tyler Anyan
Tyler Anyan
2,976 Points
Tyler Anyan
Tyler Anyan
2,976 Points

Thanks for the reply! I did most of what you've mentioned with no success but I was somehow able to figure this out (yes I sort of stumbled into the solution but hey, it worked and I got more comfortable with the terminal in the meantime). I initially tried to get sass installed using koala (was recommended online) and that's when I was having all the trouble so what I did instead was installed compass through the terminal and compass brought sass in with it and that made it work.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Did you specify a filename? Or a directory path?

If you are trying to get it to watch your present working directory my guess you'll want to use ./

If you are confused on what I'm talking about check out this getting started with Sass guide.