How to make Rails 3.1 use SASS (Over SCSS) as the default?

Question

Having a hard time figuring out how to make SASS, not SCSS, as the default for stylesheets.

I\'ve tried making a sass_config.rb file with this:

Answer 1

As @krainboltgreene commented, adding the following line to config/application.rb

config.generators.stylesheet_engine = :sass

makes sass the default format for stylesheet generators. However, since Rails 3.1.beta1 doesn't support it, one gets the following error messages

$ rails g scaffold user name:string
...
Could not find "scaffold.css.sass" in any of your source paths. Your current source paths are:
.../gems/railties-3.1.0.beta1/lib/rails/generators/rails/scaffold/templates
...

$ rails g controller users
...
Could not find "stylesheet.css.sass" in any of your source paths. Your current source paths are: 
.../gems/railties-3.1.0.beta1/lib/rails/generators/rails/assets/templates

As you see, one cannot change the default format without breaking the generators. Instead, you can manually create extra *.css.sass files, which are working fine with or without scss ones.