COMPASS CREATE Permissions denied

Question

I have gem installed both SASS and COMPASS using

gem install compass

I am trying to use the command

compass create .

to generate a compass project but when i do I get the following error.

Errno::EACCES on line ["897"] of C: Permission denied

This appears as it is trying to create the config.rb file I am at a bit of a loss as it seems to be able to create both the stylesheets and sass directories

PS C:\Projects\tutorials\sass> compass create --trace
create config.rb
Errno::EACCES on line ["897"] of C: Permission denied - (C:/Projects/tutorials/sass/config.rb20140323-9028-1j0o9n1, C:/P
rojects/tutorials/sass/config.rb)
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sass-3.2.18/lib/sass/util.rb:897:in `atomic_create_and_write_file'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/actions.rb:58:in `write_file'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/app_integration/stand_alone/installer.rb:20:in `write_c
onfiguration_files'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/app_integration/stand_alone/installer.rb:35:in `prepare
'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/installers/base.rb:32:in    `run'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-.12.4/lib/c ompass/commands/stamp_pattern.rb:75:in `perform'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/commands/base.rb:18:in `execute'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/commands/project_base.rb:19:in `execute'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/exec/sub_command_ui.rb:43:in `perform!'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/exec/sub_command_ui.rb:15:in `run!'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-0.12.4/bin/compass:30:in `block in <top   (required)>'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-0.12.4/bin/compass:44:in `call'
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/compass-0.12.4/bin/compass:44:in `<top (required)>'
C:/Ruby193/bin/compass:23:in `load'
C:/Ruby193/bin/compass:23:in `<main>'

any help anyone could give me to resolve this would be most appreciated

Answer 1

I've solved this issue by downgrading the compass version. then i've tryed to understand what was the error. So the problem was version conflicts between sass 3.2.14 and 3.3.4 . compass 0.12.3 depends on 3.2.14 sass verison. Have a look at this link Can't get sass + compass + susy installed due to version conflict

If you want to make things work with the latest compass version. you can uninstall all sass and compass version that you have. then look for the appropriate version between them. This will things work perfectly. And as a better solution you can work with this : http://bundler.io/ .

Kind regards.

Answer 2

you're right. and here you can find details about this issue: https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/issues/1618#issuecomment-38397775 They are working to solve it.

Answer 3

I think I have found the issue in the util.rb file specified in the error, an attempt is made to change the permissions of the files I think this link may hold the answer.

stackoverflow answer

Answer 4

you can do this way :

  gem install compass -v 0.12.3 --no-rdoc --no-ri

and install :

  compass install blueprint

it work for me