compass watch error - Mac OS X

Question

I've been running sass and compass for a few months now and yesterday I was having some problems with ruby and an unrelated project. So in the end I re-installed ruby and sass.

Since then I can no longer run compass watch without getting the error below.

##########:######### #########$ compass watch
/Users/#############/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:116:in `require': cannot load such file -- sass/script/node (LoadError)
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:116:in `rescue in require'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:122:in `require'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/compass-0.12.2/lib/compass/sass_extensions/monkey_patches/browser_support.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:51:in `require'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:51:in `require'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/compass-0.12.2/lib/compass/sass_extensions/monkey_patches.rb:2:in `block in <top (required)>'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/compass-0.12.2/lib/compass/sass_extensions/monkey_patches.rb:1:in `each'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/compass-0.12.2/lib/compass/sass_extensions/monkey_patches.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:51:in `require'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:51:in `require'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/compass-0.12.2/lib/compass/sass_extensions.rb:9:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:51:in `require'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:51:in `require'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/compass-0.12.2/lib/compass.rb:5:in `block in <top (required)>'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/compass-0.12.2/lib/compass.rb:4:in `each'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/compass-0.12.2/lib/compass.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:51:in `require'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:51:in `require'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/compass-0.12.2/bin/compass:20:in `block in <top (required)>'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/compass-0.12.2/bin/compass:8:in `fallback_load_path'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/compass-0.12.2/bin/compass:19:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/compass:23:in `load'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/compass:23:in `<main>'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `eval'
    from /Users/#############/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `<main>'

None of the other compass commands seem to be working either, so I reinstalled compass and I still get the same error.

Here are the versions of ruby and sass I am running. compass -v doesn't work.

ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [x86_64-darwin11.4.2] Sass 3.3.0.alpha.253 (Bleeding Edge)

Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this please?

Can you check your paths with $PATH? Maybe you simply have to add the absolute path to compass. — Rito
@Rito -bash: /Users/########/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin:/Users/########/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/bin:/Users/########/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin:/Users/########/.rvm/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin: No such file or directory Ive never had to mess about like this before. — Oliver Evans
Duplicate Question: stackoverflow.com/questions/16877028/… — Oliver Evans

johnathankent johnathankent · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-30T17:01:51

It looks like you might have a version of SASS that doesn't work with this version of Compass

I found the answer here: https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/issues/1514

The following worked for me:

Look at the version of SASS you have installed (you said Sass 3.3.0.alpha.253)

sass --version

Uninstall sass:

sudo gem uninstall sass

Reinstall sass - you should get the latest working version:

sudo gem install sass

Reinstall Compass (I did this and it kept my working version of SASS):

sudo gem install compass