I want to use Compass in my webspace on a hosted server (no root access). I followed tutorial provided by the hosting company but had no success so far:
In my home dir I created a .gem dir and a .gemrc file:
/* .gemrc in home dir */
gemhome: &GemHome /my/home/dir/.gem
gempath:
- *GemHome
- /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
The .bashrc file:
export GEM_HOME=/my/home/dir/.gem
export GEM_PATH=/my/home/dir/.gem:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
Some checks after re-connecting:
[~] echo $GEM_HOME
/my/home/dir/.gem
[~] echo $GEM_PATH
/my/home/dir/.gem:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
[~] echo $PATH
?/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
Installing Compass
[~] gem install compass
Successfully installed compass-core-1.0.3
Successfully installed compass-import-once-1.0.5
Successfully installed chunky_png-1.3.5
Successfully installed rb-fsevent-0.9.6
Successfully installed ffi-1.9.10
Successfully installed rb-inotify-0.9.5
Successfully installed compass-1.0.3
7 gems installed
Check installation
[~] gem list compass -d
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
compass (1.0.3)
Authors: Chris Eppstein, Scott Davis, Eric M. Suzanne, Brandon
Mathis, Nico Hagenburger
Homepage: http://compass-style.org
Installed at: /my/home/dir/.gem
A Real Stylesheet Framework
compass-core (1.0.3)
Authors: Chris Eppstein, Scott Davis, Eric M. Suzanne, Brandon
Mathis
Homepage: http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/
License: MIT
Installed at: /my/home/dir/.gem
The Compass core stylesheet library
compass-import-once (1.0.5)
Author: Chris Eppstein
Homepage:
https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/tree/master/import-once
License: MIT
Installed at: /my/home/dir/.gem
Speed up your Sass compilation by making @import only import each
file once.
[~] gem which compass
/my/home/dir/.gem/gems/compass-1.0.3/lib/compass.rb
But Compass cannot be used:
[~] compass
-bash: compass: command not found
Any idea what else I have to do to get compass running? I found several other discussions about this topic but all solutions targeted servers with root access. Since I do not have root access to the server: Any other solutions?
EDIT: Some more information
ls -al ~/.gem
total 32
drwxr-x--- 8 u100170 nobody 4096 Nov 19 08:43 .
drwx--x--- 11 u100170 nobody 4096 Nov 19 09:13 ..
drwxr-x--- 2 u100170 nobody 4096 Nov 19 08:49 bin
drwxr-x--- 2 u100170 nobody 4096 Nov 19 08:49 cache
drwxr-x--- 9 u100170 nobody 4096 Nov 19 08:49 doc
drwxr-x--- 10 u100170 nobody 4096 Nov 19 08:49 gems
drwxr-x--- 2 u100170 nobody 4096 Nov 19 08:49 specifications
drwxr-x--- 3 u100170 nobody 4096 Nov 19 08:43 specs
cd ~/.gem/gems/compass-1.0.3/lib/
ls -al
drwxr-x--- 3 u100170 nobody 4096 Nov 19 08:49 .
drwxr-x--- 6 u100170 nobody 4096 Nov 19 08:49 ..
drwxr-x--- 9 u100170 nobody 4096 Nov 19 08:49 compass
-rw-r--r-- 1 u100170 nobody 676 Nov 19 08:49 compass.rb
compass
-bash: compass: command not found
Your .gem location is not appended to your environmental variable. As seen from the output echo $PATH it isn't appended to your $PATH environmental variable.
Try appending it to your $PATH variable
export GEM_HOME=/my/home/dir/.gem/bin
export GEM_PATH=/my/home/dir/.gem:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
PATH=$PATH:GEM_HOME:GEM_PATH
export PATH
Finally do a source ~/.bashrc
Update
Appending the correct executable path to the $PATH environment variable will make your executable available within the shell environment.
In this specific scenario the executable location is /my/home/dir/.gem/bin