Problems when other gems depend on sass-rails

[constantm]

I've been struggling to get sassc to work with Rails for quite some time but with little luck. Tonight I thought I'd give it a try again, but a quick Google lead me to this repo. Woo!

Unfortunately I can't see any sort of increase in the speed that my scss files compile after changing them. Is there some extra configuration necessary after installing the gem?

[bolandrm]

Hey! This gem is very much a work in progress. Your mileage may vary.

It seems that your project isn't using sassc-rails to compile. Could you try some of the following:

• remove sass-rails
• after bundling, double check that sass-rails is not present
• remove cache assets folder
• spring stop? restart server?

[constantm]

Had a quick look and it seems that sass-rails is still getting included because of ActiveAdmin's dependency on it. I forked ActiveAdmin and replaced the dependencies on sass-rails with sassc and it works perfectly now. Obviously that's not the best way to go about doing things - is there some way that you're aware of to do this in a more sustainable way?

[bolandrm]

@constantm I've released version 0.0.6, which I believe addressed this problem. If you have both installed, sassc-rails should override sass-rails. Please give it a shot and let me know how it goes!

[bolandrm]

I had to revert the changes here, i'm trying this out:

in an initializer: config/initializers/sassc_rails.rb

Rails.application.assets.register_engine '.sass', SassC::Rails::SassTemplate
Rails.application.assets.register_engine '.scss', SassC::Rails::ScssTemplate

[bolandrm]

I ran into some more issues with this. I had to add the following to the initializer in the previous comment:

# config/initializers/sassc_rails.rb

require "sprockets/engines"

module Extensions
  module Sprockets
    module Engines
      def register_engine(ext, klass)
        return if [
          Sass::Rails::SassTemplate,
          Sass::Rails::ScssTemplate
        ].include?(klass)

        super
      end
    end
  end
end

Sprockets::Base.send(:prepend, Extensions::Sprockets::Engines)

Rails.application.assets.register_engine '.sass', SassC::Rails::SassTemplate
Rails.application.assets.register_engine '.scss', SassC::Rails::ScssTemplate

[bolandrm]

i'd welcome anyone else's thoughts on a more permanent solution - do we simply include the about in the sassc-rails railtie?

[brainopia]

@bolandrm here you go :)