How to resolve "You need to have Ruby and Sass installed and in your PATH for this task to work" Warning?
RubyMacosBashTerminalSassRuby Problem Overview
I am in the process of setting up a new Mac for work. I have installed Grunt & Grunt CLI globally. Then I did a npm install inside a project folder to install all dependencies.
No problems so far, but as soon as I try to run the sass:dist task, I get this warning:
Warning: You need to have Ruby and Sass installed and in your PATH for
this task to work. More info:
https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-sass Use --force
to continue.
What I understand is that I need to have Ruby and Sass installed on a more global level for this task to run. As I am still pretty new to working with the terminal, I did a quick search to find out what PATH is - seems like its some system path (that can be changed) where important data is stored.
Does this mean I can simply do a sudo grunt install contrib-sass -g to resolve the issue? And what about Ruby – I always thought its already installed on OS X?
Ruby Solutions
Solution 1 - Ruby
Ok I got it. I just had to install Sass using gem install sass and now everything is fine...couldn't be easier.
Solution 2 - Ruby
If you're on OSX El Capitan or Yosemite on Mac there seem to be an issue installing the gem.
Try
sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin sass
Solution was from github.
Solution 3 - Ruby
You need to install Ruby and Sass as:
For Ruby use command
sudo apt-get install ruby-full
And for Sass use command
sudo gem install sass
Solution 4 - Ruby
grunt-sass documentation is not very clear. To avoid the need of Ruby, you can try this:
npm uninstall --save grunt-contrib-sass
npm install --save node-sass grunt-sass
Try this, It's work for me.
https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-sass/issues/229">reference</a>
Solution 5 - Ruby
You need to install Ruby and Sass as:
For Ruby use command
sudo apt-get install ruby-full
And for Sass use command
sudo gem install sass
Solution 6 - Ruby
Use grunt --force if you are using grunt. If you want to run an application using grunt and a warning is occur like this. For ignoring this warning you can use --force.
Solution 7 - Ruby
Also simply brew install saas/sass/sass on Mac High Sierra (10.13.x)
Solution 8 - Ruby
I used Homebrew to install Ruby and then Ruby to install SASS. Probably only the best way to do it if you already use Homebrew, or want to start using it regularly...
brew install ruby
gem install sass