Question

I am not sure what I am missing, but I can only use nesting for in my rails files. I want to be able to use mixins and variables as well.

My gem file is the includes sass:

group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails',   '~> 3.2.3'
  gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.2.1'
  gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.0.3'
end

and my css files are name custom.css.scss. What am I missing?

Answer 1

From the Sass doc:

To install Sass in Rails 2, just add config.gem “sass” to
config/environment.rb. In Rails 3, add gem “sass” to your Gemfile
instead. .sass or .scss files should be placed in
public/stylesheets/sass, where they’ll be automatically compiled to
corresponding CSS files in public/stylesheets when needed (the Sass
template directory is customizable… see the Sass reference for
details).

I have to put the css files in a sass folder