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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Posted by Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Gulp JS Error

SOLVED

Something happened when I was setting up my Gulp file, and I just can figure out what.

Gulp Sass was working fine. It was generating my style.css and style.css.map file just fine (this is a Wordpress theme btw). Than I went to import a sass file from one to the other, and that's about the time it started erroring.

So I undid the import, but the error stayed.

Running the default Gulp that has nothing set up works, so I'm pretty sure it has to do with my Sass file set up.

Not sure what else changed. Google or Github wasn't of much help that I could find.

Need a second set of eyes to see if I'm missing something.

Here is the entire gulpfile.

var gulp = require('gulp');
//var rename = require("gulp-rename");
var sass = require('gulp-ruby-sass');

gulp.task('sass', function () {
    return gulp.src('dev/scss/style.scss')
        .pipe(sass({sourcemap: true, sourcemapPath: '../../dev/scss'}))
        .on('error', function (err) { console.log(err.message); })
        .pipe(gulp.dest('/'));
});

gulp.task('default', function() {
  // place code for your default task here
});

And here is what the console shows.

Last good sass import

C:\xampp\htdocs\kevinwordpress\wp-content\themes\mcs>gulp sass
[15:54:39] Using gulpfile C:\xampp\htdocs\kevinwordpress\wp-content\themes\mcs\g
ulpfile.js
[15:54:39] Starting 'sass'...
[15:54:40] gulp-ruby-sass: directory
[15:54:40] gulp-ruby-sass: write style.css
      write style.css.map
[15:54:40] Finished 'sass' after 345 ms

Than I screwed up my Sass import syntax by using parathesis. No biggie right? Easy error and got this message

C:\xampp\htdocs\kevinwordpress\wp-content\themes\mcs>gu
[16:09:42] Using gulpfile C:\xampp\htdocs\kevinwordpres
ulpfile.js
[16:09:42] Starting 'sass'...
[16:09:42] gulp-ruby-sass: directory
error style.scss (Line 5: Invalid CSS after "@import":
string or url()), was "('../../lib/twb...")
[16:09:42] 'sass' errored after 358 ms
[16:09:42] Error: EPERM, open 'C:\style.css'

Fixed the error, even removed the import, and now I get this

C:\xampp\htdocs\kevinwordpress\wp-content\themes\mc
[16:13:11] Using gulpfile C:\xampp\htdocs\kevinword
ulpfile.js
[16:13:11] Starting 'sass'...
[16:13:11] gulp-ruby-sass: directory
[16:13:11] gulp-ruby-sass: write style.css
[16:13:11] gulp-ruby-sass: write style.css.map
[16:13:11] 'sass' errored after 338 ms
[16:13:11] Error: EPERM, open 'C:\style.css'

Best I can tell it's a file permission error. But I'm not sure.

Iago Wandalsen Prates
Iago Wandalsen Prates
21,699 Points
Iago Wandalsen Prates
Iago Wandalsen Prates
21,699 Points

"Running the default Grunt that has nothing set up works, so I'm pretty sure it has to do with my Sass file set up."

You mean gulp?

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Yes gulp. I'm use to Grunt, but giving Gulp a try for once

I'll edit to reflect correctly. Thanks for the catch!

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Okay, I got it fixed.

I'm not sure if I went full retard somewhere, but I changed my pipe dist and it's behaving as I want it to now.

This is what I changed to

.pipe(gulp.dest('.'));