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CSS Sass Basics Improve Your Workflow with Sass Extend Placeholder Selectors

Sam Weeks
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Sam Weeks
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Posted by Sam Weeks
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Sam Weeks
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,699 Points

not working any suggestions?

I can only assume the scss isn't compiling the code sure to this error message however I have no idea how to amend this . can anyone help? Below is what popped up. 

treehouse:~/workspace$ sass --watch sass:css                                      
>>> Sass is watching for changes. Press Ctrl-C to stop.                           
      error No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - sass                         
Errno::EISDIR: Is a directory @ rb_sysopen - css                                  
  Use --trace for backtrace.                                                      
treehouse:~/workspace$ sass style.scss style.css                                  
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - style.s                   
  Use --trace for backtrace.                                                      
treehouse:~/workspace$

1 Answer

Ryan Groom
Ryan Groom
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So if you made the same directories(folders) that were created in the video tutorial, you'll notice that they were named "scss" and "css". In your command you are trying to reference a folder called sass and compile it to the css folder... Therefore it's throwing an error saying the "sass" directory doesn't exist. So instead of "sass --watch sass:css" your code should actually say "sass --watch scss:css".

Sam Weeks
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Sam Weeks
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Sam Weeks
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Sam Weeks
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,699 Points

thank you :) I actually deleted a file in the end that had a little bit of information in including the @rb_sysoppen. After that the sass --watch command worked; however, I assume I corrected myself as you suggested without realising. I'm now wandering if I actually needed that file or not but all the code seems to work fine. Thank you for getting back to me :)