How do I downgrade to an old version of compass using gem install?

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I've been using compass from http://compass-style.org/ to manage my sites css for a long time. I just installed the newest version and I get a rather unpleasant error, that has as a side effect corrupted all my css files. How do I downgrade to an older version of this?

Thanks, Matt

score 85 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '13 at 22:31

I just had a similar situation and there is something else missing from @corroded answer. Since @Matt Lynn is downgrading, he needs to uninstall the existing version of compass.

$ sudo gem uninstall compass

$ sudo gem install compass --version versionnumber

Otherwise you will end up with two different versions of compass.

score 68 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 01 '11 at 21:34

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sudo gem install compass --version versionnumber

edited Mar 01 '11 at 21:34

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answered Jul 26 '10 at 08:56

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gem install compass --version VERSION – Jeremy Weiskotten Sep 06 '10 at 13:53
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@Green `gem uninstall compass` (then remove all versions), then run `gem install compass --version VERSION`. – deviavir Feb 06 '15 at 10:39
I had to both uninstall compass and uninstall sass. It turned out that I had two versions of Sass installed, one that was too new. – GeeWhizBang Jan 01 '17 at 16:08

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 19 '15 at 09:56

If you want to automate it in a script (I had the same problem after a gem update), just do the following:

Install your favored version (if you don't have already)

gem install compass -v 1.2.3
Uninstall newer versions

gem uninstall compass -v '>1.2.3' --force

Kaka Ruto · Answer 4 · 2018-01-17T21:50:33.300

A Gem update doesn't 'update' the gem, but it installs a newer version of it.

So you to uninstall the newer version and leave behind the older.

Eg, for me, I wanted to revert back to an older version of selenium-webdriver, this is what I did:

- gem uninstall selenium-webdriver

This gave me an option to select gem to uninstall, with the following options:

    1. selenium-webdriver-3.4.3
    2. selenium-webdriver-3.8.0
    3. All versions

I entered 2 and the latest version was unistalled, leaving my system with the desired older version.

To install a particular version that doesn't exist in your system, just select 3 to uninstall all versions and install the specific version with:

gem install selenium-webdriver -v 3.5.3

Replace selenium-webdriver with your gem name and 3.5.3 with the version you want.

Hope this helps somebody!

How do I downgrade to an old version of compass using gem install?

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