Warning: Task "compass" not found. Use --force to continue.

[ldexterldesign]

Hey,

Is anyone able to help me fix this error? It's quite annoying as my terminal pops everytime I save out my code?

Yours hopefully,

[shama]

Is grunt-contrib-compass installed and loaded?

[ldexterldesign]

Hey,

Thanks for reply

Yea, although I suspect I may need to do this: https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-compass#watch - I'll look into it and report back if I'm still stuck

Cheers,

[ldexterldesign]

... if anyone has a sample Gruntfile.js file with the following setup they can gist I'd be grateful:

• https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-watch#optionslivereload
• https://github.com/sindresorhus/grunt-concurrent ?
• https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-compass#watch

Cheers,

[jamesplease]

@ldexterldesign, generator-webapp might be a good place to start.

[shama]

The watch option there uses compass watch which uses compass's built-in watch. I don't recommend it unless you're only compiling scss files (but then one would just use compass watch directly). It greatly complicates things to save fractions of time and I have no idea why it was implemented in that task.

The warning Task "compass" not found. comes from the task not being installed and loaded. Install with npm i grunt-contrib-compass --save-dev and grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-compass');.

[ldexterldesign]

@shama

Thanks, I'm only compiling .scss files, yea

I've run those commands and still get the error?

Do you think I should look into https://github.com/sindresorhus/grunt-concurrent ?

Cheers,

[ldexterldesign]

@jmeas

Ahh, I think I finally understand the purpose of http://yeoman.io/ :P

Cheers,

[shama]

The yeoman generator contains lots of fun things, most of which you don't need.

Here is a simple example that uses grunt-contrib-watch to compile with compass:

module.exports = function(grunt) {
  grunt.initConfig({
    compass: {
      dist: {
        options: {
          sassDir: 'sass',
          cssDir: 'css',
          environment: 'production',
        },
      },
    },
    watch: {
      css: {
        files: ['sass/*.scss'],
        tasks: ['compass'],
      },
    },
  });
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-compass');
  grunt.registerTask('default', ['compass']);
};

[thowar2]

I had the same error, which I solved by installing the compass ruby gem: sudo gem install compass

[rogerywoo]

I also had the same problem on Windows. After installing compass, make sure your path includes the path to ruby.

[baranirajarathinam]

I am also getting the same Warning: not found: compass Use --force to continue.

i tried installing the compass seperately as well, no luck. Also, what do you mean by "make sure your path includes the path to ruby."?

[rogerywoo]

Your PATH environment variable needs to include the directory where Ruby was installed.

[jeremylv1992]

I install yo and yo angular. Here is a angular project, I run "grunt server" > get the same error.

[arsenk01]

I had the same issue on Windows and running gem install compass fixed the problem.

[lili0allen]

try the solution Compass/compass#2129 (comment)