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I am trying to get the Sass fallbacks to work with Magento 1.9. I have created my own theme as skin/frontend/rwd/mytheme.

I have followed the instructions here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/ee114-ce19-rwd-dev-guide#sass-fallback-structure by using the following code in the rwd/default/scss/config.rb file: 

add_import_path "../../../rwd/default/scss"

To find the original Sass files. I have deleted all except layout/_footer.scss from my theme. When I try to compile with CodeKit I get this error:

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Clearly it's not finding the fallbacks. I have also tried putting the add_import_path code into my theme's config.rb file and the root config.rb file but nothing seems to work. Does anybody have any ideas?

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In step 2 of the "Sass Fallback Structure", it indicates specific directories that you are allowed to delete. However there are some files that you MUST have in your custompackage/customtheme/scss directory, and those are:

var.scss core.scss styles-ie8.scss styles.scss scaffold-forms.scss custom_core.scss framework.scss

If you have those files in your scss directory, you should be able to compile the Sass files using Codekit.

I don't have Codekit, but here is proof via the command line that this will work, if you set things up correctly:

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  • Talk about straight from the Llama's mouth. – philwinkle May 16 '14 at 23:02
  • You are right - it seems the problem is with my Codekit/Sass/Compass versions all conflicting with each other. – Adam Moss May 18 '14 at 20:50
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The path to the Ruby configuration file given in the tutorial seems odd to me.

Shouldn't we put this add_import_path at the custom theme level? i.e.

skin/frontend/custompackage/customtheme/scss/config.rb

Instead of

skin/frontend/rwd/default/config.rb

(Which does not even exist as it's in the scss subfolder)

One other thing: by following the instruction Step 2: Copying Files For Your Theme we are also copying the config.rb. Shouldn't the http_path be updated as well?

Edit: one example of config.rb in development environment

# note: this should never truly be refernced since we are using relative assets  
add_import_path "../../../rwd/default/scss"  
http_path = "/skin/frontend/custompackage/customtheme"  
css_dir = "../css"  
sass_dir = "../scss"  
images_dir = "../images"  
javascripts_dir = "../js"  
relative_assets = true  

output_style = :expanded  
environment = :development

Note: this works for me on different projects but my customtheme is always "default", i.e. custompackage/default (I see no reason why I souldn't work with any other name)

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  • I'm with you on this. But I think the import path does not change and should be added to the custom directory while http_path should change to the custom directory – tPlummer Nov 24 '14 at 20:38
  • I just tested this. What I did was add a config.rb file to a theme in the RWD package, changed the http_path from "default" to my theme name, then added the add_import_path to this custom config file. It works great with my compass watch. I would assume, somewhere, I will need to tell the system to watch this scss directory along with the RWD, but I'm not there yet. – tPlummer Nov 24 '14 at 21:11
  • @tPlummer Nice to have you on my side. :) My questions were rhetorical of course. Edited my answer with one config.rg of mine, hopefully it might help someone. – glouton Nov 26 '14 at 12:25
  • "Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it." You wouldn't happen to know where Magento/RWD keeps the Compass compiler script by chance? Anything in RWD auto compiled, which is neat, but I want my custom overrides to join the party. – tPlummer Nov 27 '14 at 13:15
  • "I am Groot". Sorry but not sure what you mean. Doesn't the Documentation say enough on this point? – glouton Nov 28 '14 at 16:06

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