compass-rails: Is it ready for Rails 4? Not ready.

[reconstructions]

Rails: 4.0.0
Ruby: ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [x86_64-darwin12.3.0]

With this in my Gemfile:

gem 'compass-rails', '~> 2.0.alpha.0'

And not in an :assets group, I can't get Compass to do anything.

In the documentation you write: "Note that the compass init step is optional if you have a project running Rails 3.0 or greater." However, if I put an @import "compass" statement in application.scss, I get a "File to import not found or unreadable: compass." error.

If I try and run "bundle exec compass init" from the assets folder, I get: "No application integration exists for rails".

Occasionally I can get "bundle exec compass init" to do something, seeing as compass doesn't work otherwise, but then it creates and populates /sass and other folders which your documentation says should be deprecated in favor of /stylesheets, and it puts them under /appName or /app directories where they don't belong.

From reading:

#59

It is clear that the 2.0.alpha was hacked together just before Rails 4.0 dropped, and that a lot of people had lots of problems with it. In addition to your own documentation on this repository being out of date and misleading, and sending newbies into certain trouble, it is impossible for a new user to figure out how to make it do anything, even having read all the Compass books and tutorials for days, and even after figuring out how to get the framework to install, because really there are no correct examples that I can find about how to make this alpha actually do anything with Rails 4. I would love a link to one if it exists.

I find inconsistent accounts of whether the config file is "config.rb" and goes in the /app/assets folder, or "compass-rails.rb" and lives in the /config folder.

This is (or was) a really important framework for Rails. Many months after everyone knew this needed to be fixed, it is one of 35 gems which are not ready for Rails 4 - with 358 being ready:

http://ready4rails4.net/gems/compass-rails

I am not being a troll - I would write a tutorial that would show how to make it could work if I could figure it out. But this needs to be fixed, replaced, or documented ASAP.

[reconstructions]

I can get rid of the error by making sure that the declaration in my Gemfile is not in an :assets group:

This will throw the NoMethodError:

group :assets do
gem 'compass-rails', '~> 2.0.alpha.0'
end

This will not:

gem 'compass-rails', '~> 2.0.alpha.0'

So by ignoring the "Installation" instructions posted I can get compass to run.

Which brings me to: "Note that the compass init step is optional if you have a project running Rails 3.0 or greater."

If I put an @import "compass" statement in application.scss, I get a "File to import not found or unreadable: compass." error. Clearly something needs doing which you haven't mentioned if I don't need to run "compass init"

If I try and run "bundle exec compass init" from the assets folder, I get:
"No application integration exists for rails"

Occasionally I can get "bundle exec compass init" to do something, but then it creates and populates /sass and other folders which your documentation says should be deprecated in favor of /stylesheets, and it puts them under /appName or /app directories where they don't belong.

I find inconsistent accounts of whether the config file is "config.rb" and goes in the /app/assets folder, or "compass-rails.rb" and lives in the /config folder.

So:

• which gem
• in :assets group or not
• what directory do you run "compass init" from to set up an existing project
• where is the config file and what is it named
• what else needs doing before you can put @import "compass" in a .scss without throwing something

[maksimf]

Same issue still. Can you please help me? Installed compass-rails and I'm getting "No application integration exists for rails" error, when trying to "bundle exec compass"

[seuros]

@Colix

gem 'compass-rails', github: 'Compass/compass-rails'

[maksimf]

@seuros
It intalled version 2.0.0pre, but I still can't "bundle exec compass watch", still get "No application integration exists for rails"

[seuros]

strange :

bundle exec compass watch
Nothing to compile. If you're trying to start a new project, you have left off the directory argument.

I'm using guard for watching.

[maksimf]

I finally got this working (with guard), still have some errors, though. Thank you anyway