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

Arvin Wallace
Arvin Wallace
8,956 Points
Posted by Arvin Wallace
Arvin Wallace
8,956 Points

Installing on Mac

Similar to other students here, I am getting permission issues with my command line in Mac. So the solution was proposed on this forum to pre-pend the run command with "sudo". And this works -- BUT --- according to some chatter on other boards like Stack-Overflow, using "sudo" is very dangerous and can interfere with Apple's ability to update ruby along with other things.

Also, is using "sodu" the way that other developers actually work with Sass, or do they use RVMs? If RVM is the long term solution to working with Sass, why would we ever recommend using "sodu" in the command line?

1 Answer

Arvin Wallace
Arvin Wallace
8,956 Points
Arvin Wallace
Arvin Wallace
8,956 Points

I'm going to answer my own question here.

So, I went ahead and used "sudo" to get me the access I needed. So far no problems. Command prompts are scary, but after reading some helpful blogposts on the topic (including a very helpful one here at treehouse) I feel emboldened.

AR Ehsan
AR Ehsan
7,912 Points
AR Ehsan
AR Ehsan
7,912 Points

Where do you type it. Application.