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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Getting Started with Sass Nesting Selectors

Nancy Melucci
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Nancy Melucci
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Posted by Nancy Melucci
Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 35,157 Points

How to do this?

I can run Ruby as Bitnami Ruby Stack. My version is Selective Steve. When I try to run the files in my PrePos folder, I start having issues. Also, the application opens up visual studio to show my test file. When I initiate watch Sass tells me it can't find my input file (whether I create it as main.scss or main.sass.) I tried to install Scout but the installer file at Git is damaged and apparently has been so for a few weeks (judging by comments there.)

I am interested in learning this. Is there an easier way to get going. I am running windows 10. Thanks.

Trevor Woodman
Trevor Woodman
Courses Plus Student 13,354 Points
Trevor Woodman
Trevor Woodman
Courses Plus Student 13,354 Points

To simply watch a project folder, you don't have to run ruby as a bitnami stack or worry about using prepos. For example (on Win10):

NOTE: This is assuming you've installed ruby on windows 10, easy installer here: http://rubyinstaller.org/ Right now I would suggest the 2.2.5 installer (x64, you should have 64 bit windows)

I have a project file on my desktop called "project". Inside project are two folders called css and scss , I have application.scss inside my scss folder, and an index.html file in the root directory.

Open a command line inside the root directory (to make this easy, hold SHIFT and right click inside the root directory on empty space, not a file, then click "open command window here"), type sass --watch scss:css

Start typing css/sass inside the application.scss file, save it, refresh webpage, there's your compiled css. To see the compiled css open the css folder.