I've been using zurb foundation for quite a while now.
I'm using a bower + compass setup as described here
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/sass.html
Today while working I noticed that a page was taking a while to load and while attempting to trouble shoot an issue I noticed that there are a many duplicate directives in the generated css file.
I'm sure this is probably me doing something wrong, but I don't know where to start looking and I don't even know what information to provide that might help narrow down the issue.
Foundation 5.4.5 --> actually running 5.4.7
Compass 1.0.1
Any assistance apprecieated.
*************** Update: *****************
So as it turns out I was in fact running 5.4.7
I looked in _functions.scss per @Cartucho
and it looks like the patch is there:
// IMPORT ONCE
// We use this to prevent styles from being loaded multiple times for compenents that rely on other components.
$modules: () !default;
@mixin exports($name) {
$module_index: index($modules, $name);
@if (($module_index == null) or ($module_index == false)) {
$modules: append($modules, $name);
@content;
}
}
@KatieK some examples from outputted css
at line 90
/* line 386, ../../../../foundation_master/bower_components/foundation/scss/foundation/components/_global.scss */
*,
*:before,
*:after {
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
at line 2885
/* line 386, ../../../../foundation_master/bower_components/foundation/scss/foundation/components/_global.scss */
*,
*:before,
*:after {
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
at line 3085
/* line 386, ../../../../foundation_master/bower_components/foundation/scss/foundation/components/_global.scss */
*,
*:before,
*:after {
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
It's a bug of Foundation 5.4.5. Basically the problem started when Sass 3.4 introduced some backwards incompatibilities when handling global variables:
http://sass-lang.com/documentation/file.SASS_CHANGELOG.html
All variable assignments not at the top level of the document are now
local by default. If there’s a global variable with the same name, it
won’t be overwritten unless the !global flag is used. For example,
$var: value !global will assign to $var globally.
But this new syntax is not recognized by libsass (based on Sass 3.2 specification), so Foundation guys released 5.4.5 with a partial patch:
https://github.com/zurb/foundation/commit/8b85dc37fab3da156cdfdddfc8919667b98eb155
To resolve this, please update to 5.4.6 or higher. The bug is in the mixin exports()
of _functions.scss
. Try replacing it with this code (from Foundation 5.4.6):
// _functions.scss
// ...
// IMPORT ONCE
// We use this to prevent styles from being loaded multiple times for compenents that rely on other components.
$modules: () !default;
@mixin exports($name) {
$module_index: index($modules, $name);
@if (($module_index == null) or ($module_index == false)) {
$modules: append($modules, $name);
@content;
}
}
Hope it helps!
EDIT
Seems that Foundation 5.4.7 still has compatibility issues with SASS 3.4 and SASS 3.2, specially for Compass users. There are a lot of discussion like this one in Foundation Forum.
According to official doc, Foundation works well with SASS 3.2:
Until all Sass library's can catch up to Sass 3.4, Foundation will be
on Sass 3.2. This means if you have upgraded to Sass 3.4+ and Compass
1.0+ the commands to compile a Compass project have changed slightly.
I used to compile SASS with Compass but I give up because of those problems. So, my last advice is to uninstall Compass (usually SASS 3.4) and use libsass (based on SASS 3.2). I use the following script for installing libsass in my Ubuntu:
#!/bin/sh
# install_libsass.sh
#
# Script for installing libsass (https://github.com/sass/libsass),
#
# NOTES
# http://foundation.zurb.com/forum/posts/6803-trouble-creating-f5-project-with-grunt-and-libsass
# http://mattferderer.com/compile-sass-with-sassc-and-libsass
#
sudo apt-get install git
cd /opt
sudo rm -R -f sassc
sudo rm -R -f libsass
sudo git clone https://github.com/hcatlin/sassc.git
sudo git clone https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass.git
cd /opt/libsass
sudo git submodule update --init --recursive
cd /opt/sassc
## Add the line "export SASS_LIBSASS_PATH=/opt/libsass"
## at the begining of sassc/Makefile
sudo sh -c "echo 'export SASS_LIBSASS_PATH=/opt/libsass' | cat - Makefile > temp && mv temp Makefile"
sudo make
echo "REBOOT!"
Then, reboot and check everything is OK with this command:
/opt/sassc/bin/sassc -h
Thanks to @Cartucho, I was pointed in the right direction by reviewing the updated official docs.
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/sass.html
Here's what I did to update my use of compass to compile foundation:
1) installed bundler
gem install bundler
2) in a temp directory started a new foundation project
foundation new throwaway_project
3) copied the stupid Gemfile to the root of my existing project. it looks like
source "https://rubygems.org"
gem "sass", "~> 3.3.0"
gem "compass", "~> 1.0"
4) ran bundle once
bundle
5) run compass watch again using bundler (as in instructions)
bundle exec compass watch
a bunch of deprecation warnings but generated css looks good now.