Change sass-rails dependency to sassc-rails?

[mjrudowsky]

sass-rails uses Ruby sass which is being deprecated in 26 March 2019 (http://sass.logdown.com/posts/7081811). Any thoughts of switching this project over to its replacement sassc-rails?

[javierjulio]

Yes I've been wondering what to do. We could switch it over but then I realized we don't have dependencies for other asset types like JS or images. I wonder if it might be better to just remove the dependency in a major release and in the installation instructions note that you have to have either sass-rails or sassc-rails in your Gemfile. What do you think? I think this would be ideal since that way you can choose now rather than let the library define it. Also sass-rails will be default be listed in any Rails generated Gemfile so it should be good.

[mjrudowsky]

I would be fine with removing the dependency and changing the installation instructions. Your reasoning makes sense to me. I had already changed my Gemfile to point to sassc-rails, so I'm already prepared.

[Pectojin]

Any news on this? The deadline is nearing rapidly.

[javierjulio]

Yes. I choose not to do anything because I found out that the plan is likely you won't have to make any changes. The sass-rails gem will be updated to use sassc under the hood.

activeadmin/activeadmin#5504 (comment)
rails/sass-rails#424

[javierjulio]

I updated master so this gem no longer depends on sass-rails but instead on railties.

In the end everything has been fine since sass-rails was released as just a light wrapper around sassc-rails anyway.