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Posted by Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Sass watch command in console not working?

Hi everyone :)

I used the same command I used a couple of days ago, unless I have lost the plot and now not working.

Command was$ sass --watch scss:css

I get some strange ruby gem error or something ?

I have emailed help@treehouse but they pointed me to the forum which would make me think im making a silly error somewhere :S

Any suggestions welcome :)

3 Answers

Hayley Swimelar
Hayley Swimelar
7,124 Points
Hayley Swimelar
Hayley Swimelar
7,124 Points

You need to specify a file names, like this:

was$ sass --watch style.scss:style.css

Here's the documentation.

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Hi Hayley,

That is what is strange I have used the command I mentioned before it is the command Guil says to use too :S

Below is what pops up in the console which made me think it was not a command error but I shall have a quick try of your suggestion :)

Image of console sass error

Craig

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Bad news :(

I got the same error as above :S

Hayley Swimelar
Hayley Swimelar
7,124 Points
Hayley Swimelar
Hayley Swimelar
7,124 Points

I don't think I can reply to your comment directly, but thanks for the screenshot of your console's output.

The message you're getting seems to indicate that sass isn't available, see if workspaces will let you install it.

Ryan Duchene
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Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Points
Ryan Duchene
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Points

From the error, it appears as if Sass isn't installed on your system. Run gem install sass and then try running your watch command again.

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Hi Ryan,

I was just doing as you and Hayley had suggested by trying to install the gem and it is all smiles now :)

I did not even relize we could install gems like that on the workspace console....

So can we install any gem ?

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Oh dear.....

"Listen will be polling for changes"

What on earth is going on here hahaa :)

Ryan Duchene
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Points

I'd assume so. Not all of them will work as intended, of course (Rails, for instance), but you should be able to install them, unless Treehouse did something fancy.

Ryan Duchene
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Points

Haha, it's just fancy language for saying that it will be watching your Sass files for changes, and when they change, it will recompile them.

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Thanks Ryan :)

Have I missed an update that happened to workspaces :S

I spent a day on a little project on codepen came back and all hell broke loose lol...

There is the slight change of updating to windows 10, but im still on chrome and workspace console has nothing to do with my pc anyway right ? :S

Ryan Duchene
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Points

I don't use Workspaces very much; can you explain what happened?

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Usually you just open a new workspace and if you want to use Sass, when you click to launch a new workspace you select a Sass environment.

From there you just run your sass command in the console no problems.

I'm hoping treehouse will follow my suggestion and get workspaces linked to GitHub repo's which would make it more useable in every day workings:)

Ryan Duchene
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Points

I think you can take snapshots of your Workspace and share them with other people.