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

Posted by John Greathouse
John Greathouse
17,648 Points

Getting error message in Ruby command prompt when I run "sass test.scss"

According to Hampton in the video, when I run "sass test.scss" nothing should happen. Instead I get

Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - input.scss Use --trace for backtrace.

I am using Windows 7 on an Alienware computer (if that helps). I saved the Notepad file in UTF-8 and I changed the prompt to Desktop where test.scss sits. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help you can send my way.

John Greathouse
John Greathouse
17,648 Points

Nevermind. Apparently problem was with how I was saving the scss file. Fixed it.

1 Answer

George Akinian
George Akinian
17,615 Points

make sure your scss file is saved in the same directory that you'r trying to run sass test.scss from

John Greathouse
John Greathouse
17,648 Points

Hi Paul,

Thanks for getting back on this one. I actually was saving it in the right file. However, I was saving it as a text file and not a scss file. I had to go into windows and turn off the hide extensions option in folder options. Then I could change the .txt extension to .scss. When I did that, sass could see the file. Thanks again for responding on it.