Could not find 'sass' among total gems

Question

I have previously been running an old version of Ruby, version 1.9.3, because that is what Ubuntu apt-get installs. Sass was installed with gem install sass and things works as planned. However, Sass would always tell me "Please upgrade ruby. < 2.0.0 will soon be not-supported," so I wanted to do that. I ran sudo apt-get purge ruby rubygems libruby and started to go to work.

First, I tried to install is with rvm, and that didn't go too well, so I did my best to remove that, but I may have missed some things, so don't rule that out. As per this guide ruby seems to have been successfully installed. I then ran gem install sass so I can compile some css. The following are some relevant outputs to prove the correct installation:

$ chruby
   ruby-2.1.9
 * ruby-2.3.1
$ ruby -v
ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26 revision 54768) [x86_64-linux]
$ sass -v
Sass 3.4.22 (Selective Steve)

However, when I try to integrate Sass compiling into NetBeans 8.1, the compiler throws this error for every file.

"~/.gem/ruby/2.3.1/bin/sass" "--cache-location" "~/.cache/netbeans/8.1/sass-compiler" "--debug-info" <sass input> <sass output>

~/.rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:319:in `to_specs': Could not find 'sass' (>= 0.a) among 11 total gem(s) (Gem::LoadError)

Checked in 'GEM_PATH=~/.gem/ruby/2.3.0:~/.rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0', execute `gem env` for more information
from ~/.rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:328:in `to_spec'
from ~/.rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:65:in `gem'
from ~/.gem/ruby/2.3.1/bin/sass:22:in `<main>'

Every file comes up with this error.

From reading around, it seems like it might be a path error. But it looks like I have the correct path setup.

$ echo $PATH
~/.gem/ruby/2.3.1/bin:~/.rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/bin:~/.rubies/ruby-2.3.1/bin:~/bin:~/.gem/ruby/2.3.1/bin:~/.rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/bin:~/.rubies/ruby-2.3.1/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
$ echo $GEM_PATH
~/.gem/ruby/2.3.1:~/.rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0

I'm willing to try anything at this point.

EDIT: More information on why it might be a path error. whereis for ruby, gem, and sass all output nothing. dpkg --get-selections | grep ruby outputs nothing. type ruby outputs the path to the .rubies directory, along with type gem and type sass outputs to the .gem directory.

Can you post the output of `dpkg --get-selections | grep ruby`? Also, if the `rvm` command still works, you can use `rvm implode` to remove all traces. — thesecretmaster, May 31 '16 at 23:17
@thesecretmaster `dpkg --get-selections | grep ruby` outputs nothing. I did the `rvm implode` but it left some traces in the `.bashrc` and `.profile` which I squashed. — hiybbprqag, Jun 01 '16 at 18:24
I can write an answer for rvm, but thats not what your looking for right? — thesecretmaster, Jun 01 '16 at 18:56
@thesecretmaster Not originally, but I am willing to try it. — hiybbprqag, Jun 01 '16 at 19:57

thesecretmaster · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-08T03:45:58.003

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RVM installation instructions

gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source /home/rvm/.rvm/scripts/rvm
rvm install <the ruby version you want e.g. 2.3.1>

edited Feb 08 '17 at 03:45

answered Jun 01 '16 at 20:15

thesecretmaster

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With [this post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26247926/how-to-solve-usr-bin-env-ruby-executable-hooks-no-such-file-or-directory) and yours I was able to get it to work. Thanks. – hiybbprqag Jun 01 '16 at 20:42

Could not find 'sass' among total gems

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