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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 44

Sass --watch doesn't find anything, not compiling

I'm trying to use SASS but I got some issue with it, is not compiling anything. I tried different things to troubleshoot, is still not working. Ruby 2.0.0-p576 Sass 3.4.5 Wind 7

sass --watch sass/scss.css:css/style.css

OR

sass --watch scss.css:css.css

result:

sass is watching for change .press Ctr-C to stop.

 write sass/scss.css
 write sass/scss.css.map

config.rb

# Set this to the root of your project when deployed:
css_dir = 'css'
sass_dir = 'sass'
images_dir = './img'
javascript_dir = 'js'
output_style = :expanded
relative_assets = true
line_comments = false

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2736

Answers (1)

nwalton
nwalton

Reputation: 2061

Based on the information you've provided, there are a couple of things to fix.

First, you'll want your .scss files to have the same name as your compiled .css files, just with a different extension. In this case, you'd name your .scss file style.scss, and sass will save the compiled result to style.css.

The second thing I notice is that you're using compass, with a config.rb file. This suggests that you probably don't want to use the sass --watch command to start Sass, since going this route will not actually enable Compass to be used in your Sass files. The way to invoke compass here is to run compass watch from the directory that encloses your /sass and /css directories (since those are specified in your config.rb file.

Fixing those two items will probably get your Sass compiler running the way you want. Here's what the resulting structure should look like:

/enclosing_folder
  config.rb
  /css
    style.css (this will be added by the sass compiler)
  /sass
    style.scss

In this example, run compass watch from enclosing_folder.

Upvotes: 1

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