sprockets not compiling in asset pipeline

[waynedpj]

ahoy,

i am having a problem using the asset pipeline and sprockets in ruhoh to compile sass/scss files to css: sprockets seems to be ignoring the files. i created a very simple test ruhoh site:

https://github.com/waynedpj/ruhoh-sprockets-test

this setup for me only produces what seems to be a manifest JSON file in the compiled/assets/stylesheets directory e.g. compiled/assets/stylesheets/manifest-56353ca73419555a2a0c084b82ca1f06.json. the JSON file only contains {}. the same things happens for CoffeeScript files but i left them out of this test repo just to keep things simple. i have also tried this with 2.6 and git versions of ruhoh. outside of ruhoh sprockets seems to working fine, so i figure i am missing something very simple in my ruhoh setup?

happy new year.

thanks, w

[Stebalien]

You need an application.css:

//=require test

This doesn't actually need to be called application.css but that's the convention. Basically, you need a collection point into which all of the required files should be compiled.

[waynedpj]

thank you! i thought that the dependency management was a more complicated feature and was just trying to get basic compilation going. i obviously missed the fact that they are related.

one thing however: i created a release.css.scss file that has the directive //=require test. that indeed causes the test.css to be compiled+generated. however, no corresponding release.css file is generated, even though it has valid SCSS in it? it seems from the sprockets docs that the =require directive should pull in the test file into the release.css.scss file, thus giving us a single release.css file.

i also noticed that you used application.css instead of application.css.scss? when i first put release.css in my sass directory, i was getting a FileNotFound without appending ./ to the require directive (e.g. /*=require ./test */). changing it to release.scss.css made that unnecessary but resulted in only the test.css being generated as mentioned above.

in summary, it seems like a plain CSS (i.e. non SCSS/SASS) file is needed for the top level "application" file by sprockets in ruhoh?

anyway, thanks again and happy new year.

[Stebalien]

Yes. That's how it currently works. However, I don't need ./. What is your directory layout?

[waynedpj]

sorry for the late response. i had originally followed up not long after your post, but there must have been a glitch/user error and so my original reply never made it up here.

anyway, my directory layout is

theme/
└── stylesheets
    ├── application.css
    └── test.css.sass

and now i can unfortunately/fortunately no longer recreate the FileNotFound error. prob more user error ;)

so to summarize+close this thread out, as you said creating a main application.css file and placing in it the //=require test (along with other requirements) is working fine with Ruhoh 2.6 with my simple test directory structure above.

thanks again for your help.

peace, w