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

Posted by Zaberca David
Zaberca David
5,361 Points

Sass Adventure Time

I get it. Everybody loves working on Mac, but there are some people who are still using Windows, even though you might not believe me. You see, I install this Sass thing on my Windows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows for those of you who forgot what that might be). Then I try the "sass --watch ." command which works. But that thing with the updating files made me jungling the web for solutions. I've ended up in a gypsy tent looking for answers. Not even the old lady could read in her cards what might be the cause of this mystery. Now seriously, I tried downgrading, upgrading, absolute paths, hard-fixes, potions, voodoo. Nothing can convince the Sass to really watch my file and update the other.

Please take care of the goblins from Windows. Don't just say "gem install sass". Tell us what versions, what problems we might bump into and how to bypass them.

2 Answers

Sam May
Sam May
8,363 Points
Sam May
Sam May
8,363 Points

Hey man - I'd recommend using a processing program called prepros. It watches the folders you tell it to and has loads of different compiling options. Easy to use if you don't want to delve into command line stuff.

Anthony Killeen
Anthony Killeen
16,372 Points
Anthony Killeen
Anthony Killeen
16,372 Points

Agree with Sam May, use a pre-processing program to take care of that for you. Setting up Ruby & Sass on a Windows machine isn't an overly pleasant experience (I've been there!!)

Prepros is good at that. I use Mixture on my Windows Machine (mixture.io) which watches for sass files & processes on save. Also does all the other cool things like live reload, minification etc etc. and it's platform agnostic so works just as well on my macbook. Home from home.