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Phil White
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Phil White
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Posted by Phil White
Phil White
Courses Plus Student 9,519 Points

Need help with setting up Sass

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to set up sass on windows and got to the stage where you put Desktop$ sass test.scss in the command prompt but when i do that it comes up with

'desktop$' is not a recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

or when i just put sass test.scss i get this error message

Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - test.scss use --trace to backtrace.

Where am i going wrong?

Phil White
Phil White
Courses Plus Student 9,519 Points
Phil White
Phil White
Courses Plus Student 9,519 Points

Done it! Thanks for you help. if anyone comes across this problem on windows you have to save your files directly to C:\Users\"your username">

2 Answers

Ron McCranie
Ron McCranie
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Ron McCranie
Ron McCranie
7,837 Points

I don't think you use Desktop$ in the command line. I think that is telling you what directory/folder you're in. You probably just need to us the sass test.scss portion.

Phil White
Phil White
Courses Plus Student 9,519 Points
Phil White
Phil White
Courses Plus Student 9,519 Points

Yeah i tried that but then i get this error message:

Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - test.scss use --trace to backtrace.

Ron McCranie
Ron McCranie
7,837 Points
Ron McCranie
Ron McCranie
7,837 Points

I didn't see that on your post the first time I read it, sorry. Are you trying to compile the Sass to CSS? If so, I think you have to specify both the input file and the output file: sass test.scss > test.css

Of course I'm just trying to take a quick shot at it. I typically use a GUI based tool to compile my Sass on file save like HammerForMac or CodeKit

Phil White
Phil White
Courses Plus Student 9,519 Points
Phil White
Phil White
Courses Plus Student 9,519 Points

I'm not sure what we are meant to be doing I've just started doing this tutorial:

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/sass-basics/getting-started-with-sass/installing-and-using-sass-2

and got stuck at the very start. I tried putting in what you said but still getting the same error

Fran M
Fran M
20,141 Points
Fran M
Fran M
20,141 Points

Have you also installed Ruby linked from Sass's website [ http://sass-lang.com/install ] right side of page website under bold header title Linux there is in bold print a Windows disclaimer in print :

"Before you start using Sass you will need to install Ruby. The fastest way to get Ruby on your Windows computer is to use Ruby Installer. It's a single-click installer that will get everything set up for you super fast. The installer will also install a Ruby command line powershell application that will let you use the Ruby libraries."

http://www.rubyinstaller.org/ hope that helps?