'Error: spawn ENOENT: missing the sass executable

I'm using bash in windows.

Getting this error when trying to run a sass compiler command via gulp. I have Ruby & Sass installed. Sass works fine when running it manually.

Error: spawn ENOENT: missing the sass executable.  Please install sass and make available on your PATH

I have included the directory of my ruby bin in the PATH var (system variables within Enviroment variables).

Anyone got any ideas?

ruby windows sass gulp

Solution 1:^[1]

I had the same issue, fixed it by typing this;

sudo gem install sass

A reboot didn't fix it unfortunately. I swapped out the gulp-ruby-sass for the gulp-sass plugin and all is working fine.

It's hardly a fix but it served as a solution for me.

Instead of installing ruby-sass, I simply ran

npm i -g sass

Then replaced "sass" in gulp.js to "sass.cmd" for Windows

For my case the error was:

gulp-notify: [Error running Gulp] Error: spawn sass ENOENT

To fix it, I did the following:

In your project root:

npm install --save-dev gulp-ruby-sass

Which installed: [email protected] node_modules/gulp-ruby-sass

Then:

sudo gem install sass

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