Most recent version of SASS-related gem dependencies causes the CSS files to fail to compile.

[tsrivishnu]

• The most recent version of one of the SASS-related gem dependencies (from August 28ish) causes the CSS files to fail to compile. (The problem seems to be an error in the new SASS gem or in one of the Bootstrap files.) I've read the Bootstrap files have a missing semicolon somewhere, which might be the problem. But I could not find it. I am avoiding 'bundle update' and using the pre-August-28 SASS dependency for the time being.
• Heroku assets need to be precompiled so that Heroku doesn't try to 'bundle update'. ('Bundle update' results in the CSS error mentioned above, which causes deployment failure.) Before every push, manually precompile as follows:

rm -rf tmp/*  
rm -rf public/assets/*  
RAILS_ENV=production rake assets:precompile --trace  

and then of course:

(git add ., git commit, git push (--all), git push (-f) heroku branch-name:master)  

This of course makes a mess in git. So please do it as its own separate commit (i.e. git commit -am 'Precompile assets for Heroku').

[tsrivishnu]

@tamarakorr I was looking at this and changed the line gem 'bootstrap-sass', '2.3.2.0' to gem 'bootstrap-sass' and ran bundle update, pushed it to a sample heroku app to check. It seems to have pre compiled normally and all looks good. http://stepup-demo-staging.herokuapp.com/

However, I have got a few warnings,

Warning. Error encountered while saving cache 77bf2ec6ac6f9d055fa58c618d61be57e58bd659/users.css.scssc: can't dump anonymous class #<Class:0x00000102ca3278>

I suppose these are not what you are talking about. Let me know.

[tsrivishnu]

@tamarakorr Also, add me to the repo as contributor? I shall push my code so that we can check.

[tamarakorr]

Hi Vishnu,

I think those warnings just come up with bootstrap generally. Indeed they weren't what I meant - the problem made Heroku completely unable to deploy.

The file causing the error wasn't specifically listed in the StepUp Gemfile. It was the SASS gem itself - version 3.4.2 specifically. Many developers suddenly had the same problem that night, when version 3.4.2 went online. I see the owners of SASS have updated the gem three times since v3.4.2. So the problem is probably fixed now. (Unless it was in Bootstrap CSS itself...)

If your check works we can update the notes. I just added you as a collaborator. Have a great day, Tammy

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Sri Vishnu Totakura < notifications@github.com> wrote:

@tamarakorr https://github.com/tamarakorr Also, add me to the repo as contributor? I shall push my code so that we can check.

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