Error "Compass can't find any Sass files to compile." on compass create

Question

I am getting the following error when running compass create my-theme -r bootstrap-sass --using bootstrap:

$ compass create my-theme -r bootstrap-sass --using bootstrap
directory my-theme/ 
   create my-theme/config.rb 
Compass can't find any Sass files to compile.
Is your compass configuration correct?.
If you're trying to start a new project, you have left off the directory argument.
Run "compass -h" to get help.

I get this error in any directory where I run the command above.

How can I solve this problem?

Relevant output:

$ compass --version
Compass 1.0.1 (Polaris)
Copyright (c) 2008-2014 Chris Eppstein
Released under the MIT License.
Compass is charityware.
Please make a tax deductable donation for a worthy cause: http://umdf.org/compass
$ sass --version
Sass 3.4.5 (Selective Steve)
$ gem --version
2.2.2

Answer 1

Looks like a wrong configuration somewhere. By reinstalling ruby, gem, sass and compass this should be fixed.

Install aptitude

sudo apt-get install aptitude

Cleaning

Uninstall ruby

sudo aptitude purge ruby

Be sure you don't have any other ruby packages (e.g. ruby2.1)

sudo aptitude purge ruby2.1

Remove executables that were not removed via aptitude

rm -rf /usr/local/lib/ruby
rm -rf /usr/lib/ruby
rm -f /usr/local/bin/ruby
rm -f /usr/bin/ruby
rm -f /usr/local/bin/irb
rm -f /usr/bin/irb
rm -f /usr/local/bin/gem
rm -f /usr/bin/gem
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/sass
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/compass

Fresh install

ruby

sudo apt-get install ruby-full rubygems-integration

sass

sudo gem install sass

compass

sudo gem install compass

Now we have a fresh install of ruby, gem, sass and compass.

---

Let's check if everything is working nice now:

$ compass create my-theme -r bootstrap-sass --using bootstrap
directory my-theme/ 
directory my-theme/fonts/bootstrap/ 
directory my-theme/javascripts/ 
directory my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/ 
directory my-theme/sass/ 
directory my-theme/stylesheets/ 
   create my-theme/config.rb 
   create my-theme/sass/styles.scss 
   create my-theme/sass/_bootstrap-variables.scss 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/affix.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/transition.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/collapse.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/scrollspy.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/tooltip.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/dropdown.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/button.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/alert.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/popover.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/carousel.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/tab.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap/modal.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap.js 
   create my-theme/javascripts/bootstrap-sprockets.js 
   create my-theme/fonts/bootstrap/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff 
   create my-theme/fonts/bootstrap/glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot 
   create my-theme/fonts/bootstrap/glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg 
   create my-theme/fonts/bootstrap/glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf 
    write my-theme/stylesheets/styles.css

*********************************************************************
Congratulations! Your compass project has been created.

You may now add and edit sass stylesheets in the sass subdirectory of your project.

Sass files beginning with an underscore are called partials and won't be
compiled to CSS, but they can be imported into other sass stylesheets.

You can configure your project by editing the config.rb configuration file.

You must compile your sass stylesheets into CSS when they change.
This can be done in one of the following ways:
  1. To compile on demand:
     compass compile [path/to/project]
  2. To monitor your project for changes and automatically recompile:
     compass watch [path/to/project]

More Resources:
  * Website: http://compass-style.org/
  * Sass: http://sass-lang.com
  * Community: http://groups.google.com/group/compass-users/


To import your new stylesheets add the following lines of HTML (or equivalent) to your webpage:
<head>
  <link href="/stylesheets/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>