sass --watch does not detect changes to files in directory

[jgorset]

$ sass --version
Sass 3.1.1 (Brainy Betty)
$ ls -la static/
drwxrwxrwx   7 administrator  administrator  238 May 23 11:29 .
drwxr-xr-x  22 administrator  administrator  748 May 23 11:26 ..
drwxrwxrwx   2 administrator  administrator   68 May 19 15:42 coffee
drwxrwxrwx   7 administrator  administrator  238 May 23 11:25 css
drwxrwxrwx   6 administrator  administrator  204 May 23 11:12 img
drwxrwxrwx   2 administrator  administrator   68 May 19 15:42 js
drwxrwxrwx   4 administrator  administrator  136 May 23 11:25 sass
$ sass --watch static/sass:static/css --trace
>>> Sass is watching for changes. Press Ctrl-C to stop.
  overwrite static/css/home.css

SASS detects changes in the directory upon launching, but does not detect changes at runtime. I should note that watching individual files works fine.

[chriseppstein]

what gems do you have installed?

[jcode]

same problem this is my gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

aaronh-chronic (0.3.9)
aasm (2.2.0)
abstract (1.0.0)
actionmailer (3.0.3, 2.3.11, 2.3.10, 2.3.9, 2.3.8)
actionpack (3.0.3, 2.3.11, 2.3.10, 2.3.9, 2.3.8)
activemodel (3.0.3)
activerecord (3.0.3, 2.3.11, 2.3.10, 2.3.9, 2.3.8)
activeresource (3.0.3, 2.3.11, 2.3.10, 2.3.9, 2.3.8)
activesupport (3.0.3, 2.3.11, 2.3.10, 2.3.9, 2.3.8)
acts_as_list (0.1.2)
acts_as_tree (0.1.1)
addressable (2.2.4, 2.2.2)
arel (2.0.4)
authlogic (2.1.6)
aws-s3 (0.6.2)
blankslate (2.1.2.3)
bson (1.2.0, 1.0.9)
bson_ext (1.2.0)
builder (3.0.0, 2.1.2)
bundler (1.0.10, 1.0.7)
bundler08 (0.8.5)
capybara (0.4.1.1)
carmen (0.1.1)
celerity (0.8.7)
cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)
childprocess (0.1.6)
classifier (1.3.3)
crack (0.1.6, 0.1.5)
cucumber (0.10.0)
cucumber-rails (0.3.2)
culerity (0.2.15)
daemon_controller (0.2.6)
daemons (1.1.0, 1.0.10)
database_cleaner (0.6.1)
db-charmer (1.6.13)
diff-lcs (1.1.2)
directory_watcher (1.4.0)
durran-validatable (2.0.1)
erubis (2.6.6)
eventmachine (0.12.10)
extlib (0.9.15)
factory_girl (1.3.3)
fakeweb (1.3.0)
faraday (0.5.4, 0.4.6)
faraday_middleware (0.3.2)
fast-stemmer (1.0.0)
fast_xs (0.8.0)
fastercsv (1.5.4)
fastthread (1.0.7)
ffi (0.6.3)
fgraph (0.5.1)
fleakr (0.7.1)
garb (0.6.0)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
geokit (1.5.0)
gherkin (2.3.3)
happymapper (0.3.0)
hashie (1.0.0, 0.2.2, 0.1.8)
hoptoad_notifier (2.4.4, 2.3.12)
hpricot (0.8.3, 0.6)
httparty (0.5.2, 0.4.5)
i18n (0.4.2, 0.3.7)
jekyll (0.10.0)
jferris-mocha (0.9.8.20100526112143)
jnunemaker-validatable (1.8.4)
json (1.4.6)
json_pure (1.5.1, 1.4.6)
libxml-ruby (1.1.4, 1.1.3)
liquid (2.2.2)
loggable (0.3.0)
mail (2.2.10)
maruku (0.6.0)
mime-types (1.16)
mongo (1.2.0, 1.0.9)
mongo_mapper (0.8.6)
mongoid (1.9.2)
mongrel (1.1.5)
multi_json (0.0.5)
multi_xml (0.2.2)
multipart-post (1.1.0)
mustache (0.12.0)
mysql (2.8.1)
newrelic_rpm (2.13.3)
nokogiri (1.4.4)
oauth (0.4.4, 0.4.3, 0.3.5)
oauth-plugin (0.3.14)
oauth2 (0.1.1, 0.0.13)
paperclip (2.3.8)
passenger (3.0.7)
plucky (0.3.6)
polyglot (0.3.1)
rack (1.2.1, 1.1.0)
rack-cache (1.0)
rack-mount (0.6.13)
rack-test (0.5.7, 0.5.6)
rails (2.3.11, 2.3.10, 2.3.9, 2.3.8)
railties (3.0.3)
rake (0.8.7)
rakismet (0.4.2)
RedCloth (4.2.2)
relevance-rcov (0.9.2.1)
rsolr (1.0.0.beta5, 0.12.1)
rsolr-ext (0.12.1, 0.12.0)
ruby-hmac (0.4.0)
ruby-openid (2.1.8)
rubygems-update (1.3.7)
rubyzip (0.9.4)
sanitize (2.0.0)
sass (3.1.1)
searchlogic (2.4.27)
selenium-webdriver (0.1.2)
shoulda (2.10.3)
simple_oauth (0.1.4)
sluggable (0.1.1)
sproutcore (1.4.4)
stomp (1.1.3)
syntax (1.0.0)
term-ansicolor (1.0.5)
thin (1.2.7)
thor (0.14.6)
treetop (1.4.9)
truncate_html (0.4.0)
twitter (1.2.0, 0.9.8)
tzinfo (0.3.23, 0.3.16)
validation_reflection (0.3.8)
video_info (0.2.4)
whenever (0.6.7)
will_paginate (2.3.15)
xml-simple (1.0.12)
xpath (0.1.3)
ya2yaml (0.26)
yajl-ruby (0.7.9)

[chriseppstein]

@jcode does installing the latest fssm fix the issue?

[rriveras]

Hi, chriseppstein!
We (jcode and I) are using the latest FSSM version: 0.2.7

It's a very odd problem.
We tried on different platforms (OSX, Linux) with the same result.
The only thing that I get from the console is:
>>> Sass is watching for changes. Press Ctrl-C to stop.

[jcode]

I think that my problem was a recursive partial invocation.

*jgorset * try the -C option (avoid the cache use)

[jgorset]

Thanks @jcode, but -C does't do anything for me.

I've discovered that using SASS under Ruby 1.9.2 instead of Mac OS X's bundled Ruby 1.8.7 remedies the issue, however.

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]
$ gem list --local

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.3.6)
actionpack (2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.13.6)
actionwebservice (1.2.6)
activerecord (2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.15.6)
activeresource (2.3.5, 2.2.2)
activesupport (2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.4.4)
acts_as_ferret (0.4.3)
capistrano (2.5.2)
cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)
daemons (1.0.10)
dnssd (0.6.0)
fastthread (1.0.1)
fcgi (0.8.7)
ferret (0.11.6)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
highline (1.5.0)
hpricot (0.6.164)
less (1.2.21)
libxml-ruby (1.1.2)
mongrel (1.1.5)
mutter (0.5.3)
needle (1.3.0)
net-scp (1.0.1)
net-sftp (2.0.1, 1.1.1)
net-ssh (2.0.4, 1.1.4)
net-ssh-gateway (1.0.0)
polyglot (0.3.1)
rack (1.0.1)
rails (2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.2.6)
rake (0.8.3)
RedCloth (4.1.1)
ruby-openid (2.1.2)
ruby-yadis (0.3.4)
rubynode (0.1.5)
sass (3.1.1)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.4)
termios (0.9.4)
treetop (1.4.8)
xmpp4r (0.4)

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [x86_64-darwin10.4.0]
$ gem list --local

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

aaronh-chronic (0.3.9)
abstract (1.0.0)
actionmailer (3.0.7, 3.0.5, 3.0.3, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0, 2.3.8)
actionpack (3.0.7, 3.0.5, 3.0.3, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0, 2.3.8)
activemodel (3.0.7, 3.0.5, 3.0.3, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0)
activerecord (3.0.7, 3.0.5, 3.0.3, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0, 2.3.8)
activeresource (3.0.7, 3.0.5, 3.0.3, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0, 2.3.8)
activesupport (3.0.7, 3.0.5, 3.0.3, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0, 2.3.8)
arel (2.1.0, 2.0.9, 2.0.7, 2.0.6, 2.0.2, 2.0.1, 1.0.1)
authlogic (3.0.2, 2.1.6)
builder (3.0.0, 2.1.2)
bundler (1.0.12, 1.0.10, 1.0.7, 1.0.5, 1.0.3, 1.0.2, 1.0.0)
chronic (0.3.0, 0.2.3)
concerned_with (0.1.0)
configuration (1.2.0)
crack (0.1.8)
daemons (1.1.3, 1.1.0, 1.0.10)
erubis (2.7.0, 2.6.6)
eventmachine (0.12.10)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
github (0.6.2, 0.6.0, 0.4.5, 0.4.3)
haml (3.1.1, 3.0.25, 3.0.24, 3.0.23, 3.0.22, 3.0.21, 3.0.18)
highline (1.6.1, 1.5.2)
hoe (2.9.4, 2.9.1, 2.8.0, 2.7.0, 2.6.2)
hpricot (0.8.4, 0.8.3, 0.8.2)
htty (1.3.3, 1.3.1, 1.2.1, 1.1.5, 1.1.2, 1.1.1)
i18n (0.5.0, 0.4.2, 0.4.1)
json (1.5.1, 1.4.6)
json_pure (1.5.1, 1.4.6)
launchy (0.4.0, 0.3.7)
mail (2.3.0, 2.2.15, 2.2.13, 2.2.11, 2.2.9.1, 2.2.9, 2.2.6.1)
meme_generator (1.9, 1.8)
mime-types (1.16)
mongrel (1.2.0.pre2)
mysql (2.8.1)
mysql2 (0.3.2, 0.2.6, 0.2.4)
nokogiri (1.4.4)
polyglot (0.3.1)
rack (1.2.2, 1.2.1, 1.1.0)
rack-mount (0.7.1, 0.6.14, 0.6.13)
rack-test (0.5.7, 0.5.6)
rails (3.0.7, 3.0.5, 3.0.3, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0, 2.3.8)
railties (3.0.7, 3.0.5, 3.0.3, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.0)
rake (0.8.7)
rb-appscript (0.6.1, 0.6.0, 0.5.3)
rmagick (2.13.1)
ruby-prof (0.10.6, 0.9.2)
rubyforge (2.0.4)
rubygems-update (1.7.2, 1.6.2, 1.6.0, 1.5.0, 1.4.1)
simple-navigation (3.2.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.0, 3.0.2, 3.0.0)
terminitor (0.5.2, 0.4.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.1, 0.2.2, 0.1.0, 0.0.5)
text-format (1.0.0)
text-hyphen (1.0.0)
thin (1.2.11, 1.2.10, 1.2.8, 1.2.7)
thor (0.14.6, 0.14.4, 0.14.3, 0.14.2, 0.14.0)
treetop (1.4.9, 1.4.8)
trollop (1.16.2)
tzinfo (0.3.27, 0.3.25, 0.3.24, 0.3.23)
whenever (0.6.7, 0.6.2, 0.6.1, 0.5.3, 0.5.0)

Please let me know if you'd like me to try to reproduce the issue with a gem-less install of Ruby 1.8.7 and Ruby 1.9.2.

[jenshedqvist]

I've got this issue as well, removing/disabling cache doesn't help. Watch doesn't detect changes in any of my projects.
Im using Windows 7 64-bit and my projects are under Subversion if that's relevant.

C:\wamp\www\prj\stylesheets>ruby --version
ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18) [i386-mingw32]

C:\wamp\www\prj\stylesheets>sass --version
Sass 3.1.4 (Brainy Betty)

C:\wamp\www\prj\stylesheets>gem list --local

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

addressable (2.2.6)
capybara (1.1.2)
childprocess (0.2.2)
chunky_png (1.2.0)
cmdparse (2.0.2)
coffee-script (2.2.0)
coffee-script-source (1.1.3)
compass (0.11.5, 0.10.6)
evergreen (1.0.0)
execjs (1.2.9)
ffi (1.0.11 x86-mingw32)
fssm (0.2.7)
haml (3.0.24)
json_pure (1.6.1)
juicer (1.0.9, 1.0.8)
launchy (2.0.5)
mime-types (1.17.2)
minitest (1.6.0)
multi_json (1.0.3)
nokogiri (1.4.4.1 x86-mingw32, 1.4.4 x86-mingw32)
rack (1.3.5)
rack-protection (1.1.4)
rack-test (0.6.1)
rake (0.8.7)
rdoc (2.5.8)
rubyzip (0.9.4)
sass (3.1.4)
selenium-webdriver (2.12.2)
sinatra (1.3.1)
tilt (1.3.3)
xpath (0.1.4)

C:\wamp\www\europeiska\erv.se\stylesheets>sass --watch scss/reslider:css/reslider --style :expanded
>>> Sass is watching for changes. Press Ctrl-C to stop.

Now it doesn't work converting at all, not even this:

C:\wamp\www\prj\stylesheets\scss\reslider>sass erv-theme.scss:erv-theme.css --style :expanded -C

Also, if I try to move the above file to another projekc under Compass control it is unable to convert it (but all other files), it just stops:

>>> Compass is polling for changes. Press Ctrl-C to Stop.
>>> Change detected to: erv-theme.scss

[jenshedqvist]

It seems to be choking on my @moz-keyframe animation. Hmmm.
It can convert this:

@moz-keyframe markersin {
    0% {
        background-position:82% -25%,
                            93% -50%,
                            80% -100%,
                            87% -25%,
                            88% -50%,
                            55% -100%,
                            54% -25%,
                            56% -50%,
                            90% -100%,
                            79% -25%,
                            65% -50%,
                            68% -100%,
                            67% -25%,
                            74% -50%,
                            71% -100%,
                            73% -25%,
                            77% -50%,
                            74% -100%,
                            78% -25%,
                            90% 90%;
    }
    100% {
        background-position:82% 50%,
                            93% 39%,
                            80% 62%,
                            87% 71%,
                            88% 69%,
                            55% 67%,
                            54% -25%,
                            56% -50%,
                            90% -100%,
                            79% -25%,
                            65% -50%,
                            68% -100%,
                            67% -25%,
                            74% -50%,
                            71% -100%,
                            73% -25%,
                            77% -50%,
                            74% -100%,
                            78% -25%,
                            90% 90%;
    }
}
@moz-keyframe markersin2 {
    0% {
        background-position:82% 50%,
                            93% 39%,
                            80% 62%,
                            87% 71%,
                            88% 69%,
                            55% 67%,
                            54% -25%,
                            56% -50%,
                            90% -100%,
                            79% -25%,
                            65% -50%,
                            68% -100%,
                            67% -25%,
                            74% -50%,
                            71% -100%,
                            73% -25%,
                            77% -50%,
                            74% -100%,
                            78% -25%,
                            90% 90%;
    }
    100% {

    }
}
@moz-keyframe markersin3 {
    0% {

    }
    100% {


    }
}

But not this:

@moz-keyframe markersin {
    0% {
        background-position:82% -25%,
                            93% -50%,
                            80% -100%,
                            87% -25%,
                            88% -50%,
                            55% -100%,
                            54% -25%,
                            56% -50%,
                            90% -100%,
                            79% -25%,
                            65% -50%,
                            68% -100%,
                            67% -25%,
                            74% -50%,
                            71% -100%,
                            73% -25%,
                            77% -50%,
                            74% -100%,
                            78% -25%,
                            90% 90%;
    }
    100% {
        background-position:82% 50%,
                            93% 39%,
                            80% 62%,
                            87% 71%,
                            88% 69%,
                            55% 67%,
                            54% -25%,
                            56% -50%,
                            90% -100%,
                            79% -25%,
                            65% -50%,
                            68% -100%,
                            67% -25%,
                            74% -50%,
                            71% -100%,
                            73% -25%,
                            77% -50%,
                            74% -100%,
                            78% -25%,
                            90% 90%;
    }
}
@moz-keyframe markersin2 {
    0% {
        background-position:82% 50%,
                            93% 39%,
                            80% 62%,
                            87% 71%,
                            88% 69%,
                            55% 67%,
                            54% -25%,
                            56% -50%,
                            90% -100%,
                            79% -25%,
                            65% -50%,
                            68% -100%,
                            67% -25%,
                            74% -50%,
                            71% -100%,
                            73% -25%,
                            77% -50%,
                            74% -100%,
                            78% -25%,
                            90% 90%;
    }
    100% {
        background-position:82% 50%,
                            93% 39%,
                            80% 62%,
                            87% 71%,
                            88% 69%,
                            55% 67%,
                            54% 70%,
                            56% 78%,
                            90% 71%,
                            79% 48%,
                            65% 61%,
                            68% 57%,
                            67% 64%,
                            74% -50%,
                            71% -100%,
                            73% -25%,
                            77% -50%,
                            74% -100%,
                            78% -25%,
                            90% 90%;
    }
}
@moz-keyframe markersin3 {
    0% {
        background-position:82% 50%,
                            93% 39%,
                            80% 62%,
                            87% 71%,
                            88% 69%,
                            55% 67%,
                            54% 70%,
                            56% 78%,
                            90% 71%,
                            79% 48%,
                            65% 61%,
                            68% 57%,
                            67% 64%,
                            74% -50%,
                            71% -100%,
                            73% -25%,
                            77% -50%,
                            74% -100%,
                            78% -25%,
                            90% 90%;
    }
    100% {
        background-position:82% 50%,
                            93% 39%,
                            80% 62%,
                            87% 71%,
                            88% 69%,
                            55% 67%,
                            54% 70%,
                            56% 78%,
                            90% 71%,
                            79% 48%,
                            65% 61%,
                            68% 57%,
                            67% 64%,
                            74% 57%,
                            71% 68%,
                            73% 72%,
                            77% 51%,
                            74% 50%,
                            78% 62%,
                            90% 90%;

    }
}

[norfali]

I have the same exact issue which started happening only since yesterday. I have uninstalled gems, reinstalled Ruby, etc - all with same results.

The only way to make it work was to roll version back to 3.1.5 (Brainy Betty) and all is well. I am on Windows 7 (64-bit) if this helps.

[nex3]

@norfali If you install version 3.2.0.alpha.104, does it work?

[norfali]

@nex3 Yep I can confirm that 3.2.0.alpha.104 works fine so something somewhere is breaking it in version 3.1.6. :o)

[norfali]

The issue seems to have come back - this time affecting 3.2.0.alpha.104 even with brand new project. I have not done any updates since my last comment.

Very strange. O_o Shall/should I open this as a new separate issue?

[nex3]

@norfali Do they show up in 3.1.17? There were several fixes to --watch in that release.

[norfali]

Yep thanks that version has resolved the issue. Out of interest, what was it with --watch that made it stop working?

[nex3]

We switched over to guard/listen and the transition was a little bumpy.

[martypowell]

@jcode your comment about using the cache option saved me a bunch of time, thanks!

[HarshitChhipa]

I am having the same issue.
Can you please tell me how to do this.