How to resolve “You need to have Ruby and Sass installed and in your PATH for this task to work” Warning?

Question

I am in the process of setting up a new Mac for work. I have installed Grunt & Grunt CLI globally. Then I did a npm install inside a project folder to insta

Answer 1

You need to install Ruby and Sass as:

For Ruby use command

sudo apt-get install ruby-full

And for Sass use command

sudo gem install sass

Answer 2

I used Homebrew to install Ruby and then Ruby to install SASS. Probably only the best way to do it if you already use Homebrew, or want to start using it regularly...

brew install ruby
gem install sass

Answer 3

If you're on OSX El Capitan or Yosemite on Mac there seem to be an issue installing the gem.

Try

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin sass

Solution was from github.

Answer 4

Ok I got it. I just had to install Sass using gem install sass and now everything is fine...couldn't be easier.

Answer 5

Use grunt --force if you are using grunt. If you want to run an application using grunt and a warning is occur like this. For ignoring this warning you can use --force.

Answer 6

Also simply brew install saas/sass/sass on Mac High Sierra (10.13.x)