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Corey Mason
4,236 Points"sass --watch ." Not working
I'm running Windows 7 (sass 3.3.8 and ruby 2.0.0p481 x64-mingw32) and it initially creates the css file but will not recognize any changes I make to the .scss file.
I am navigating to the folder containing the test.scss file and these are the command variations I am trying (with no success): 1.) sass --watch . 2.) sass --watch test.scss:test.css
6 Answers
Corey Mason
4,236 PointsToday I reran gem sass install and it suddenly started working; perhaps a bug fix was recently released.
Viaceslav Vasiljev
7,913 PointsIf anyone else has this problem this helped me
Solution:
Uninstall - sass [gem uninstall sass]
Install - sass version 3.4.0 [gem install sass -v 3.4.0]
Chris Shaw
26,676 PointsHi Corey,
Could you post the full command you're using or are you just using sass --watch by itself? If that's the case you need to specify the input file to use and the location of where you want SASS to create the compiled .css file.
http://sass-lang.com/documentation/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#using_sass
Corey Mason
4,236 PointsI am navigating to the folder containing the test.scss file and these are the command variations I am trying (with no success): 1.) sass --watch . 2.) sass --watch test.scss:test.css
Chris Shaw
26,676 PointsSorry for the delay, one thing you may want to check is if you have wdm installed which stands for Windows Directory Monitor, if you don't have that installed SASS won't be able to track your changes.
gem install wdm
Corey Mason
4,236 PointsInstalling Windows Directory Monitor does not seem to have fixed the problem.
Chris Shaw
26,676 PointsYou may need to restart Windows after installing it, apart from that I can't off the top of my head think of anything else that would cause the watcher to not work without throwing an error as every time the SCSS file updates in the file system wdm triggers a change event that SASS watches for.
Corey Mason
4,236 PointsThe problem still persists and I do not receive any errors
Corey Mason
4,236 PointsThe problem still persists and I do not receive any errors.
Brad Woods
13,772 PointsI was having the same problem as you. The console would not log any changes on a file that is on the desktop, but will for a file in a different directory. Also the changes wouldn't show up on the css file created by --watch if that file was opened in notepad. That file being opened in notepad++ would only show the changes after about a 10sec lag period and with a prompt from notepadd++
Corey Mason
4,236 PointsI still haven't fixed it. It doesn't matter what folder the file is in, it just won't update in the console or the file. Let me know if you find a solution.
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsWhat directory did you create the .scss file in, and are trying to run watch from?
It didn't work for me when I had the file in my Downloads directory (under my user directory), but worked when I moved and ran everything from a C:\Dev\ directory...
Maybe give that a shot?
Corey Mason
4,236 PointsThe problem has since mysteriously resolved but at the time the directory made no difference.