Not working with gulp-sass & Second argument passing does not find package.json

[OllieJennings]

When doing

var gulpLoadTasks = require('gulp-load-tasks');

gulpLoadTasks(this);

if gulp-sass is in your devDependencies, then calling this.sass() will result in the error #Gulp object does not have sass

Also, when passing in the second argument, it cannot seem to find the package.json file as seen in the attached file.

[jackfranklin]

@OllieJennings instead of this.sass(), do you get the same error if you just call sass()? If you could throw up the code you're using for both your issues, that'd make it easier to debug :)

[OllieJennings]

@jackfranklin The code is as follows:

gulpLoadTasks = require("gulp-load-tasks");
gulpLoadTasks(this);

gulp.task('sass', function () {
   gulp.src('./etc...')
       .pipe(sass())
       .pipe(gulp.dest('....'));

Which gives the error:

[gulp] Running 'sass'...
[gulp] Errored 'sass' in 5.68 ms sass is not defined

And if l do this.sass() instead of sass() then l get the following error:

[gulp] Running 'sass'...
[gulp] Errored 'sass' in 5.74 ms Object #<Gulp> has no method 'sass'

Hopes this helps :)

[jackfranklin]

@OllieJennings cheers, I'll give it a try. Final Q: you definitely have gulp-sass in your dependencies?

[OllieJennings]

@jackfranklin Yep, this is what my package.json file looks like:

"dependencies": {
    "express": "3.4.7",
    "jade": "*"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "gulp": "~3.1.4",
    "gulp-load-tasks": "0.0.4",
    "gulp-sass": "~0.2.2",
    "gulp-uglify": "~0.1.0",
    "gulp-concat": "~2.1.2"
  }

[jackfranklin]

@OllieJennings basically I was wrong, extending this doesn't work because of the context that the gulp tasks are executed in.

I suggest you upgrade to 0.1.0, which now works like this:

var tasks = gulpLoadTasks();
gulp.task('sass', function () {
   gulp.src('./etc...')
       .pipe(tasks.sass())
       .pipe(gulp.dest('....'));

Any probs give me a shout.