Questions tagged [less-rails]

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Cannot call method 'charAt' of undefined

I am having rails3 application which running fine in my local ubuntu machine. I deployed my application using capistrano-unicorn to remote server via copy. The remote server is also having a same configuration which I had in local machine like rvm…
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Error when using mix function in LESS in rails

Using the less-rails gem. Using the following code to mix two colours: @base: #ffdc52; @add: #195742; .colour{ color: mix(@base, @add); } getting the following error: Less::ParseError: error evaluating function `mix`: Cannot read property…
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avoid @import being included twice - rails engine

i have a rails engine which is being consumed by an application. The engine and the application both are dependent on a mixin file so both of them does @import 'mixins' But on css compression these mixins will be included twice. Is there anyway to…
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Installing ruby gem less-rails on windows machine using therubyracer

since a while I am trying to install the less-rails gem on my windows7 machine. I already managed to install the needed therubyracer.gem using this binary file: https://github.com/stereobooster/therubyracer/downloads I also downloaded the v8.dll…
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Less parser error while precompiling assets rails

Here is my Gemfile. source 'https://rubygems.org' # Bundle edge Rails instead: gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails' gem 'rails', '4.1.1' # Use mysql as the database for Active Record gem 'mysql2' # Use SCSS for stylesheets gem 'pg' gem…
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Make less-rails add line numbers as comment

Is there any way to configure less-rails so that it shows the line number of original sources as comments? And is it possible to enable source mapping? Consider the following example: file1.less body { background-color: black; } file2.less body…
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less-rails, cannot make use of @import

Following the instructions all works fine if the less is all in one file, however, using @import it loses all reference to variables. I placed my .less files under /vendor/frameworks/ Added the following to application.rb config.less.paths <<…
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twitter bootstrap rails CSS not loading after cloning project on new machine

I have two machines, Machine1 works just fine. Machine2 is a new machine that I'm setting up. Machine1 is running OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard and Machine2 is running OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. I've uploaded my project to Github, so I should be…
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less-rails gem not importing less files as expected

I'm trying to include less in my rails 3 projects so that I can have a global.css.less file that looks like this: @import "variables"; @import "app"; However, whenever I do that, app.less can't access variables defined in variables.less. The…
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Recompile the parent LESS file in Rails 3.2

I'm using the "less-rails" gem to get less integrated into my rails app. In my "applications.css.less" file, I'm importing other LESS files into it. When I make a change to any of the imported files I need to re-save the "application.css.less" file…
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upgrade configuration of less due to migrate rails from 3 to 5

Rails migration from v3 to v5 is in progress. Less loading is not worked. couldn't find file '../less/style.less' under '{root}/app/assets/stylesheets' with type 'text/css' (seems strange mime type in error message, I suppose may be less must be…
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Less::Error expected expected ')' got '''

Recently I upgraded less-rails gem to 3.0.0. The error raised on stylesheet_link_tag, javascript_include_tag, image_tag and anywhere else that involving asset pipeline. However when I prepend /assets/ e.g change from = stylesheet_link_tag…
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Why is this COMMENTED piece of code, <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", :media => "all" %>, not allowing my ROR app to run

I'm in the process of getting Twitter-rails-bootstrap GEM up and running on my Windows OS. The load error is below: cannot load such file -- less (in C:/Sites/cardMS/app/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap_and_overrides.css.less) Thanks
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less-rails doesn't generate digest assets with assets:precompile

I am building a gem and have some assets in namespace under the less, fonts and the images folder. In each of the less files wherever there is a url('') for font or image, I am using asset-url('') with the same contents. After that when I run rake…
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Correct way to import non-less files in less-rails

I have been trying to import a normal css file in a less file as described in the less-rails' documentation using asset helpers, e.g.: @import asset-url('some/path/to/something.css') without any luck. The output does not change asset-url(...) to…
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