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

Posted by George Akinian
George Akinian
17,615 Points

Unable to gem install sass due to no write permission.

Any clue on how to get around this issue?

1 Answer

William Li
PLUS
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

sudo gem install sass should work if this is a permission issue. It'll ask for your admin password, I think it's the same as account login password.

johannbillar
johannbillar
9,028 Points
johannbillar
johannbillar
9,028 Points

Thanks William. Your solution worked on my Mac OS X 10.10.