Web Workbench is Crashing Visual Studio 2015 on Compass Compile using External Ruby Path

The programs works fine when I leave the external Ruby path in the options menu blank. But I don't want to have to manually download my gems and copy them into my project, so I figured out that I can use the ruby external path.

I set it to C:\dev\Ruby22\bin

Which is the path on my local drive.

I configured config.rb properly as follows

# Require any additional compass plugins here.
require 'compass/import-once/activate'
require 'susy'
require 'breakpoint'
require 'sassy-buttons'
require 'compass-normalize'
#require 'animate-sass'

# Set this to the root of your project when deployed:

http_path = "/"
# project_path = "/"
css_dir = "assets/css"
sass_dir = "assets/sass"
images_dir = "images"
javascripts_dir = "assets/js"
fonts_dir = "assets/fonts"


# 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

# To disable debugging comments that display the original location of your selectors. Uncomment:
# line_comments = false


# If you prefer the indented syntax, you might want to regenerate this
# project again passing --syntax sass, or you can uncomment this:
# preferred_syntax = :sass
# and then run:
# sass-convert -R --from scss --to sass sass scss && rm -rf sass && mv scss sass
preferred_syntax = :scss

However, now it upon saving any .scss file, it immediately crashes the entire program.

My .scss file

// style.scss WORKING 9-28-15
// ==============

//Resets 
@import "compass/reset"; // first, reset everything
@import "normalize"; // now, normalize it

//Compass imports   
@import "compass/css3/box-shadow";
@import "compass/css3/text-shadow";
@import "compass/css3/filter";
@import "compass/css3/flexbox";
@import "compass/css3/transition";
@import "compass/css3/box-sizing";

//External Libraries 
@import "susy";
@import "breakpoint";
@import "_sassybuttons.scss";

//Core Partial
@import "variables";
@import "mixins";
@import "base";
@import "layout";

If I remove the external ruby path, it just calls an error saying it cannot find my external gems (because they aren't manually imported).

Please help resolve this bug. I really like the workflow the program promises to offer. Thank you!

Are you able to provide some more detail on the actual crash you are experiencing? Is Visual Studio itself crashing? If so can you please trigger a crash and then upload your ActivityLog.xml file (should be located in %AppData%Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ActivityLog.xml) as this will hopefully will contain the details of the exception which we can use to try and debug this further.

Jeremy

Hello. Sure I will be happy to provide an activity log, however when I nagivate to this path on my computer, I cannot find the Activitylog.xml file.

Do you know where else it may be located so I can send you this data? Thanks for the fast reply. See screenshot.

Thats the right path. This is normally created manually however you can force this on by running:

devenv /log

You should see ActivityLog.xml appear once Visual Studio has loaded when running it with this setting.

Jeremy

Any update on this? Looks like web workbench isn't compatible with VS2015.