Mindscape Web Workbench installed on VS 2012 not working

Hello,

I have a user trying to use Mindscape Web Workbench in VS 2012 and it seems like it is not doing anything. He receives no errors (at least no where we would expect). We have uninstalled and installed MindScape through Extension Manager and VS gallery multiple times, also removed the contents of the Extensions directory. We have verified that the Compilation is enabled. We have also tried to uninstall VS 2012 and completely re-install it with no change. We have also reset all the settings for VS 2012. We have confirmed if someone else in our environment runs mindscape on a file it works just fine for them.

Note: if we fall back to the VS 2010 install, mindscape works just fine.

System Specs: Windows 7 Enterprise x64 VS 2012 Premium MindScape Web Workbench 3.2.972.22809

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Do you see a "Mindscape" menu in the menu bar on that installation? Also what other extensions do you have installed on that installation?

Jeremy

I do see MindScape in the menu and there are no other extensions installed as I thought that might have caused the problem.

Can you elaborate on what you are doing and what you are expecting to see? e.g. Saving a .less file and I am not seeing a .css file generated.

Jeremy

We are trying to save a .scss file and expecting it to do the thing it normally does, which is make the css file a sub-item and generate it on save.

If you go to Tools/Options/Web Workbench check that Compilation has not been disabled for Sass files underneath the Compilation section and then under the Sass section check that the Produce .css file is enabled.

Also do you see anything in the "Output" window when saving the file?

Jeremy

SASS and LESS compilation are set to "True". Under "Compilation", everything is set to "False" except "Add generated files to project". Node.js and Ruby paths aren't set.

Also, Nothing happens in the output window.

Sounds like something isnt being wired up correctly in relation to triggering a compile when the document is saved. Can you try enabling the "Trigger compile on build" setting under Compilation and then see if building the project causes a generation to occur.

Jeremy

I attempted to do that and still nothing changed.

-Dara

Are the files you are working with being addressed from the local file system or on a UNC share, FTP folder or web server?

Jeremy

The files are located locally.

Can you check your ActivityLog.xml file (should be located in %AppData%Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ActivityLog.xml) and do a quick search for "Exception" just to check that there isn't a crash occurring that isn't immediately visible.

Unfortunately we haven't seen a problem like this before so without something tangible to debug Im afraid there isn't much more I can suggest. Im assuming you have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling WW?

Jeremy

I have the same problem!

When I save my .scss file it doesn't create the css instead it fills the .css with:

C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': 193: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.   - C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-mingw32/digest/sha1.so (LoadError)
from C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sass-3.2.7/lib/sass/engine.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
from C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sass-3.2.7/lib/sass.rb:93:in `<top (required)>'
from C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sass-3.2.7/bin/sass:5:in `<top (required)>'
from C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/bin/sass:19:in `load'
from C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/bin/sass:19:in `<main>'

The ActivityLog.xml in my case doesn't exist, I have followed all of the above tips!

please help.

Try deleting your C:/Users/leroy/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench folder. It looks like you have a corrupt file there. Deleting this folder will trigger a re-extraction of the Ruby installation which should hopefully resolve this for you.

Jeremy

Thanks, that did the trick ;)

I'm having the same issue but deleting the folder doesn't help.

Can you post the stack trace you are seeing in the output window please?

Thanks!
Jeremy

I'm having the problem as well.

Suddenly I don't get any css or min.css created, and getting this error

C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': 193: %1 er ikke et gyldigt Win32-program.   - C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-mingw32/digest/sha1.so (LoadError)
    from C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sass-3.4.3/lib/sass/engine.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
    from C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sass-3.4.3/lib/sass.rb:99:in `<top (required)>'
    from C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sass-3.4.3/bin/sass:8:in `rescue in <top (required)>'
    from C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sass-3.4.3/bin/sass:5:in `<top (required)>'
    from C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/bin/sass:19:in `load'
    from C:/Users/DEVPC3/AppData/Local/Temp/Mindscape/WebWorkbench/Ruby193/Ruby193/bin/sass:19:in `<main>'

I've tried to delete the files in /temp/mindscape/etcetcetc but that didn't help.

I am getting the same thing, as of today. Also deleted the temp-folder, but that didn't fix it.

FYI: I am using Visual Studio 2015 with all the latest updates

I think I solved it ...

1. Closed all Visual Studio Instances
2. Deleted all files in /users/user/app_data/local/temp/
3. Unsinstalled MindScape
4. Restarted
5. Downloaded latest build
6. Installed latest build

And now I don't get any errors any more, and the files are build again.