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CSS CSS to Sass Installing Sass and Setting up the Project Installing and Updating Sass

Posted by True Andrews
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True Andrews
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,520 Points

error message

Im getting an error message:

Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing sass: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

current directory: /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/ffi-1.11.1/ext/ffi_c

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20191001-739-1qo5z09.rb extconf.rb mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/include/ruby.h

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/ffi-1.11.1 for inspection. Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/extensions/universal-darwin-17/2.3.0/ffi-1.11.1/gem_make.out

Tyler Andal
Tyler Andal
8,383 Points

Hi True Andrews, What are you doing prior to receiving the error (example: installing or updating Sass)? Are you on a mac or windows operating system?

True Andrews
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True Andrews
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,520 Points

I'm on a mac. I add the sudo gem install for sass