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

Posted by Nathaniel Thomas
Nathaniel Thomas
Courses Plus Student 8,530 Points

Load Error for Sass in terminal?

I am trying to get my command line to allow me to overwrite/main.css but it just says 

write/main.css LoadError: cannot load such file -- rb-fsevent
  Use --trace for backtrace.

I can follow along but I have to type sass --watch . every time I want to view changes to my CSS and Sass. Any idea what I should do?

3 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

> Any idea what I should do?

Google the error message :wink:

When I googled cannot load such file -- rb-fsevent the first result informed me you need to:

Install the missing file: To do that use the gem install rb-fsevent command

source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22433850/1756132

Nathaniel Thomas
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Nathaniel Thomas
Courses Plus Student 8,530 Points
Nathaniel Thomas
Nathaniel Thomas
Courses Plus Student 8,530 Points

Thank you for the help. I had googled many of the error messages I was getting but not this one. Thanks

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Choosing the what to google is in my estimation more art than science, I've been there.

Jay Laiche
Jay Laiche
8,612 Points
Jay Laiche
Jay Laiche
8,612 Points

I actually just ran into this problem. I would recommend just downloading Scout, as Hampton showed in the video. Scout basically does the command line work for you, and is very simple to set-up and use.

In terms of the actual command line problem, like I said, I'm not entirely sure, as I ran into it as well. Until you figure it out, just go with Scout so you can continue learning Sass without worrying about terminal.