Basically I have a structure that used to work perfectly in 3.0.x and now it breaks with undefined variable
errors.
- partials
- _base.css.sass
- _header.css.sass
- main.css.sass
- application.css.sass
the application.css.sass
:
//=require 'main'
the main.css.sass
:
@import 'partials/base'
@import 'partials/header'
Pretty simple stuff.
I get an error on _header.css.sass
because it uses a variable defined on _base.css.sass
I didn't have this error before, and it makes no sense to me, since we're importing those variables on the _base.css.sass
in the same context we are importing the _header.css.sass
.
Am I going to have to import the _base.css.sass
on every partial too?
What is the point of the main.css.sass
requiring global variables if they cannot be used in the own partials you are requiring?
If my structure is completely wrong, please give me an alternative, I'd love suggestions.
You can't use //=require
to include "dynamic" SASS stuff like mixins and variables, because that's used just for including the most "static" stuff (like pure CSS). You have to @import
all your files in application.css.sass
. Railscasts provides good explanation of this in episode #268.
There is a simple solution for the original topic. Your application and main css files should be scss files. That means you can use the known syntax:
/*
*= require_self
*= require main
*/
In main.scss you can import the partials like this:
@import 'partials/base'
@import 'partials/header'
These files are sass files and you can benefit from the greatness of SASS ;-)
I think I had the same problem and what helped was declaring the variables before @imports. Hope this helps someone =).
Apparently you HAVE to use the application.css.sass
as a manifest, or nothing will work.
Basically you can separate everything but they need to be called from the application file because the scopes are not shared.
Little bit too enforcing if you ask me...
It's a sass file. Use @import
in application.css.sass
instead of require
. require
is for plain css or template engines that don't have an import system.