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

Mark Lovett
Mark Lovett
15,853 Points
Posted by Mark Lovett
Mark Lovett
15,853 Points

Sass Mac Installation issue - Ruby conflict?

Sass did not appear to be installed on my mac, so I ran sudo gem install sass, and sass --version returns Sass 3.3.10 (Maptastic Maple).

It seemed to install correctly. However, when I ran sass test.scss it returns the below.

I have no idea what I need to do to at this point. I believe I had installed Sass previously with codekit and using sublime2. Not sure if this has anything to do with it.

Help! ''' marks-mbp:~ marklovett$ sass test.scss /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/universal-darwin13/rbconfig.rb:213: warning: Insecure world writable dir /Users/marklovett in PATH, mode 040777 /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:296:in to_specs': Could not find 'sass' (>= 0) among 14 total gem(s) (Gem::LoadError) from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:307:into_spec' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:47:in gem' from /usr/bin/sass:22:in<main>' '''

1 Answer

Benjamin Lim
Benjamin Lim
17,880 Points
Benjamin Lim
Benjamin Lim
17,880 Points

Hi Mark,

Try create the test.scss file first and enter some CSS in there. Eg. body{background:green;} After doing so, when you run sass test.scss Sass should compile and generate the test.css first for you.

Hope this helps!