Question

I’m very new at this so I’ll give as many details as possible:

Using Mac OSX 10.7.4

Installed today:
TextMate 1.5.11
RVM 1.15.5 by Wayne Seguin
GCC 10.7
Ruby 1.9.3
Rails 3.2.8
Haml 3.1.7
Sass 3.2.1

Haml instructions:

To run Haml from the command line, just use

haml input.haml output.html

When I input the above command, my Terminal responds:

Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - input.haml

Use --trace for backtrace.

When I input:

--trace

It returns:

-bash: --trace: command not found

Having similar issue with Sass:

$ sass --watch style.scss:style.css
>>> Sass is watching for changes. Press Ctrl-C to stop.
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - style.scss
Use --trace for backtrace.

Do I need to create the input.haml and output.haml files first and put them in a directory somewhere? If so, can someone give me a very specific path where the folder needs to go?

Similar question for the Sass files — do they need to be in a particular folder for the Terminal to locate them?

And.. unsure why –trace is not working…

Can someone advise me on how to troubleshoot this? I am only familiar with HTML/CSS, and have been asked to learn Haml/Sass by my team.

Answer 1

input.haml should exist and should be a haml file. output.html is where the output will be stored (and will be overwritten if it exists)

Those files can be anywhere you want, but if they aren’t in the current directory you’ll need to adjust the path accordingly.

Similarly for sass style.scss must exist and the resulting CSS will be output to style.css