How to resolve "You need to have Ruby and Sass installed and in your PATH for this task to work" Warning?

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I am in the process of setting up a new Mac for work. I have installed Grunt & Grunt CLI globally. Then I did a npm install inside a project folder to install all dependencies.

No problems so far, but as soon as I try to run the sass:dist task, I get this warning:

Warning: You need to have Ruby and Sass installed and in your PATH for
this task to work. More info:
https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-sass Use --force 
to continue.

What I understand is that I need to have Ruby and Sass installed on a more global level for this task to run. As I am still pretty new to working with the terminal, I did a quick search to find out what PATH is - seems like its some system path (that can be changed) where important data is stored.

Does this mean I can simply do a sudo grunt install contrib-sass -g to resolve the issue? And what about Ruby – I always thought its already installed on OS X?

Does this answer your question? [Grunt sass don't have ruby and sass installed?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24269242/grunt-sass-dont-have-ruby-and-sass-installed) — Silviu Burcea, May 20 '20 at 14:20

score 212 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 24 '13 at 17:04

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Ok I got it. I just had to install Sass using gem install sass and now everything is fine...couldn't be easier.

answered Nov 24 '13 at 17:04

Sven

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sudo apt-get install ruby-compass : seems to install both on Ubuntu - Ruby wasn't installed in my case – myol Oct 15 '14 at 21:00
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On my Mac `sudo` was required before `gem install sass`. – Krzysztof Wolny Jul 20 '15 at 09:51
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This is the same for Windows – Matt Canty Sep 23 '15 at 12:51
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(Win7) I had to manually add the Ruby bin path into PATH - only afterwards the gem install sass worked. – Dragos Rusu Oct 14 '15 at 20:16

score 91 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 14 '15 at 12:26

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If you're on OSX El Capitan or Yosemite on Mac there seem to be an issue installing the gem.

Try

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin sass

Solution was from github.

edited Dec 14 '15 at 12:26

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answered Oct 05 '15 at 12:25

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Works also on Yosemite. – Stephan Kristyn Nov 26 '15 at 20:48
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Works well for El Capitan ! – Maxime Lafarie Feb 15 '16 at 13:24

score 12 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 20 '17 at 13:33

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You need to install Ruby and Sass as:

For Ruby use command

sudo apt-get install ruby-full

And for Sass use command

sudo gem install sass

answered Feb 20 '17 at 13:33

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I already had ruby installed and only the command sudo gem install sass worked for me. – Danilo Cândido Oct 17 '17 at 01:59
just -> gem install sass – Danilo Cândido Oct 27 '17 at 20:26

score 8 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 02 '18 at 09:56

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grunt-sass documentation is not very clear. To avoid the need of Ruby, you can try this:

npm uninstall --save grunt-contrib-sass
npm install --save node-sass grunt-sass

Try this, It's work for me.

reference

answered Feb 02 '18 at 09:56

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This is the best answer in 2020. It makes SASS work like a charm and keeps all of the dependencies locally installed via npm. When adapting my code from grunt-contrib-sass to grunt-sass, I needed to make some adjustments to my grunt config, but their usage example made it easy: https://github.com/sindresorhus/grunt-sass#usage – Alexander Rice Jan 15 '20 at 20:42
Great, thanks for the tip! Had been searching how to get rid of that dependency to Ruby and you answered it. I would however use rather `npm install --save-dev` instead of `--save` because you only need sass for development (I just edited this in the answer). – Tobias May 07 '20 at 08:18
But after that, I had to change my Gruntfile.js: `const sass = require("node-sass"); grunt.initConfig({ sass: { options: { implementation: sass } }` Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/68104462/6909703 – Sergiy Zaharchenko Apr 24 '22 at 09:12

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 02 '19 at 08:51

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You need to install Ruby and Sass as:

For Ruby use command

sudo apt-get install ruby-full

And for Sass use command

sudo gem install sass

edited Dec 02 '19 at 08:51

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answered Dec 02 '19 at 08:29

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Rohit Katiyar · Answer 6 · 2017-03-09T09:56:56.687

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Use grunt --force if you are using grunt. If you want to run an application using grunt and a warning is occur like this. For ignoring this warning you can use --force.

edited Mar 09 '17 at 09:56

answered Mar 09 '17 at 07:21

Rohit Katiyar

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Welcome to the Stack Overflow. You should add some more description to your answer. It is not best practice to post answers with just one sentence. – filipst Mar 09 '17 at 07:48

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 11 '18 at 21:33

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I used Homebrew to install Ruby and then Ruby to install SASS. Probably only the best way to do it if you already use Homebrew, or want to start using it regularly...

brew install ruby
gem install sass

answered Apr 11 '18 at 21:33

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Jun 27 '18 at 10:43

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Also simply brew install saas/sass/sass on Mac High Sierra (10.13.x)

answered Jun 27 '18 at 10:43

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