Installing SASS on Yosemite

Question

I'm struggling with an error in my command line while trying to install SASS.

I'm just following what SASS website recommend to type in the command line:

sudo gem install sass

and here is the error I got:

    My-MacBook-Pro:~ username$ gem install sass
ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'sass' (>= 0), here is why:
          Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Operation timed out - connect(2) (https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)
ERROR:  Possible alternatives: sass

Then when I try to test if it installed with command line:

sass -v

I got:

-bash: sass: command not found

I have a 2015 macbook pro with the latest OSX Yosemite.

Alternatively, how could I install SASS manually? I see it trying to download https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz .

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

That's probably because the servers serving gems are blocked in China (for whatever reason that is). An easier way to solve this would be:

1. Open a terminal
2. gem sources -r https://rubygems.org/
3. gem sources -a https://ruby.taobao.org/ (this is a mirror of rubygems.org)
4. gem update --system
5. sudo gem install sass

Done. Hope it helps.