Trying to learn SASS but its not loading unless i prompt sass --watch . after every change? Why is it being so slow?

Are you telling it what file(s) to watch as well, or only running sass --watch?

I followed the steps here [http://www.zingdesign.com/the-sass-and-compass-tutorial-for-absolute-beginners/] and watch is now working for me.

I suspect there is too much stuff in my desktop or something there was killing it? Or perhaps I wasn't watching in the right directory?

Hope this helps someone!

You should call the file. if its main.scss do:

sass --watch main.scss

it will work :)

so do i do:

sass --watch test.scss:test.css

test is my file name?

Hi Phil,

you will need to navigate to the folder that the file is in, once you get there you'll have to call the:

sass --watch test.scss

by navigating I mean if youre using mac and the terminal use "ls" to see the optional folders, than select the folder that the file is located in with "cd"

Once you are in the correct folder you will need to call that watch command

Hi Phil, it would be the "dir" command here you go:

http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Directories-in-Command-Prompt

all the info you need about the command prompt, it's very easy to learn. I'm sure once you get that down you wont have anymore problems, it is a little tricky to set up Sass but it is worth it! :)

Ok, now when you navigate to that folder in command prompt once you get to it go in to it with "cd" command and run the sass --watch test.scss

what text editor are you using?

and everytime you save the scss file you get prompted?

No basically i change the scss file and then it doesn't update in the css file unless i do scss --watch . after every change

Has anybody else got a clue whats going on?

Try to start from scratch, create the test.scss file on your desktop so it would be easy for you to navigate through the command prompt.

Let me know if that works.

Phil, after having a massive headache trying to get watch to work, a saviour posted up in a thread of mine here, telling me that Sass 3.4.2 is having a problem with watch.

I think you can check which version of Sass by putting sass --version into the command prompt.

Either way, to roll back to sass 3.4.1, in the command prompt do:

gem uninstall sass
gem install sass -v 3.4.1

This SORTED it for me! Good luck! Let me know if it works!

same issue... I wish there was an answer out there. I feel ya Phil... let me know if you ever do figure it out. Ill do the same

Has anyone figured out what the problem is? I uninstalled the latest Sass version and installed 3.4.1 but still no luck.

I followed the steps here [http://www.zingdesign.com/the-sass-and-compass-tutorial-for-absolute-beginners/] and watch is now working for me.

I suspect there is too much stuff in my desktop or something there was killing it? Or perhaps I wasn't watching in the right directory?

Hope this helps someone!