Syntax error: File to import not found or unreadable: foundation/common/ratios - terminal

Question

I have foundation installed and when I edit and save the app.scss file it creates a "app.css" and a "config.rb" file in the sass folder of my project. when I open that "app.css" file I get this
Syntax error: File to import not found or unreadable: foundation/common/ratios.
and then under that I get this:
File to import not found or unreadable: foundation/common/ratios.
Load paths:
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/WebApp02/sass
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/compass-0.12.2/frameworks/blueprint/stylesheets
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/compass-0.12.2/frameworks/compass/stylesheets
Compass::SpriteImporter
on line 1 of /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/WebApp02/sass/_settings.scss
from line 2 of /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/WebApp02/sass/app.scss
and then a bunch of paths to my gems.
It never created an app.css and config.rb file in my sass folder before I was wondering if anyone can explain why that is happening. Compass still complies to app.css in the "stylesheet" folder but I would like to fix this to keep from any future errors from happening.
config.rb file looks like this
require 'zurb-foundation'
Require any additional compass plugins here.
Set this to the root of your project when deployed:
http_path = "/"
css_dir = "stylesheets"
sass_dir = "sass"
images_dir = "images"
javascripts_dir = "javascripts"
You can select your preferred output style here (can be overridden via the command line):
output_style = :expanded or :nested or :compact or :compressed
To enable relative paths to assets via compass helper functions. Uncomment:
relative_assets = true

Answer 1

I was having same error in my project with sinatra. It was after upgrading from foundation 3.2.5 to version 4.0.2.
I realized that 'foundation/common/ratios' is not in the zurb-foundation gem anymore.
I had another error on "foundation not found or unreadable" so I had to modify also my Gemfile requiring 'compass' gem before zurb-foundation
gem 'compass'
gem 'zurb-foundation'
With foundation 3.2.5 'compass' wasn't explicitly required in Gemfile, but now it is and if you look at the zurb-foundation.rb code (in your ruby gemset), you can see:
if defined?(Compass)
Compass::Frameworks.register("foundation",
:stylesheets_directory => File.join(root,"scss"),
:templates_directory => File.join(root,"templates")
)
end
For this reason if in the project compass is not defined before zurb-foundation, zurb-foundation.rb doesn't expand the path including the scss folder.
I hope that my experience of today, may help you.
Best regards,
Roberto

Answer 2

I couldnt get this to work (rails 3.2.12 with asset pipeline and gem "compass-rails" and/or gem "compass") so I just locked onto 3.2.5
gem 'zurb-foundation', "= 3.2.5"

Answer 3

i had these same errors when trying to update a foundation 3 website using visual studio Express 2010. Express does not allow the use of the Mindscape extension tool.
so this is what worked for me a few times now. i basically start with a new webfolder using compass to create the folder. I don't waste my time trying to update because this seems to work for me. And its common to back up before a version update anyway.
from the root folder above your website. (i use the vs default path) so from the command line in rails i cd to this path
> cd C:\Users\georgegargoyle\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\
*note if you are ungrading from foundation 3, and you only use ruby for foundation, you very well could have an old version of sass which the new foundation will need. i have not known it to hurt to just uninstall and reinstall sass
which is
> gem uninstall sass
>
> gem install sass
i think if it asks you the version of sass and you do not know
type the 5th option as text not the number 5 ... all versions ??
then.. type the number 5
you may get two warnings so i just hit y or yes twice.
anyway, from the websites folder type
compass create yournewfolder -r zurb-foundation --using foundation
you should see cool Woot! there it is then
> cd yournewfolder
to move into the project folder then
gem install compass
gem update compass
gem install foundation
gem update foundation
the documentation for foundation is below and i am new to this so this is not necessarily best practice, just what worked for me. Thanks to gekorob above I think i learned, which i suspected, that the order you run these commands matters because of the versions you have installed. ruby, compass, sass, foundation and visual studio.
Which i suspect can lead to problems if thinks get switched around . and would lead you here.
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/sass.html
hope this helps and that you see lots of this.
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