@import not working with absolute file paths about sass HOT 10 CLOSED

I'm trying to imagine a use case where an absolute path doesn't result in pain, but not finding one. Please enlighten me.

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It is for a CMS I'm working on. Each widget can add styles to a @mixin based on the widget's name. The @imports are then dynamically built, then the @includes are scoped to a class matching the widget's name, then the whole thing is rendered to CSS. Absolute @imports have worked just fine until 3.1.0.alpha.249; were they not supposed to this whole time?

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In Sass 3.1, you can build a custom Importer to bring in dynamically generated code. This is vastly preferable to generating code to disk and then importing that.

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Whether or not this should be supported is up to @nex3, I don't see a good use for it, it results in fragile stylesheets.

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Absolute path imports seem to work fine for me. Can you post a backtrace, as well as which version of Ruby you're using?

This is not a blocker for 3.1.

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Oh, please also post the exact Sass code you're using.

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I am generating the following Sass dynamically, via https://github.com/ravinggenius/scratch_pad/blob/master/lib/sass_builder.rb. This gets converted to CSS, which is then stored in a publicly accessible file. Using compass-0.11.beta.7 and sass-3.1.0....

@charset 'utf-8'
$experimental-support-for-svg: true
$experimental-support-for-khtml: false
$experimental-support-for-microsoft: true
$experimental-support-for-mozilla: false
$experimental-support-for-opera: false
$experimental-support-for-webkit: false
@import '/home/thomas/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@development/gems/scratch_pad-themes-default-0.0.1/lib/styles/_variables.sass'
@import 'compass/css3/font-face'
@import 'compass/reset/utilities'
@import 'compass/utilities/lists'
/* zenda license: /assets/theme/default/fonts/Zenda-fontfacekit/Paul%20Lloyd%20License%20Agreement.txt
@include font-face("zenda", font-files('/assets/theme/default/fonts/Zenda-fontfacekit/zenda-webfont.woff', woff, '/assets/theme/default/fonts/Zenda-fontfacekit/zenda-webfont.ttf', truetype, '/assets/theme/default/fonts/Zenda-fontfacekit/zenda-webfont.svg', svg), '/assets/theme/default/fonts/Zenda-fontfacekit/zenda-webfont.eot')
@import '/home/thomas/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@development/gems/scratch_pad-widgets-system_menu-0.0.2/lib/styles/all.sass'
@import '/home/thomas/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@development/gems/scratch_pad-themes-default-0.0.1/lib/styles/all.sass'
@media all
  @include global-reset
  @include reset-html5
  .system-menu
    @include system_menu_all
  @include default_all

Stacktrace:

Sass::SyntaxError (File to import not found or unreadable: /home/thomas/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@development/gems/scratch_pad-themes-default-0.0.1/lib/styles/_variables.sass.
Load paths:
  /home/thomas/Code/ravinggenius-scratch_pad/app/stylesheets
  /home/thomas/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@development/gems/compass-0.11.beta.7/frameworks/blueprint/stylesheets
  /home/thomas/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@development/gems/compass-0.11.beta.7/frameworks/compass/stylesheets
  /home/thomas/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@development/gems/compass-susy-plugin-0.8.1/sass
  ):
  lib/sass_builder.rb:27:in `to_css'
  app/controllers/assets_controller.rb:40:in `styles'

Rendered /home/thomas/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@development/gems/actionpack-3.0.7/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/_trace.erb (1.0ms)
Rendered /home/thomas/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@development/gems/actionpack-3.0.7/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/_request_and_response.erb (2.9ms)
Rendered /home/thomas/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@development/gems/actionpack-3.0.7/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/diagnostics.erb within rescues/layout (8.8ms)

Thanks for trying to understand this and help me. I really appreciate the work you guys are doing.

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@chriseppstein helped me work around this issue by converting the absolute paths to relative paths. Still not sure why the absolute paths wouldn't work.

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what was the work around? I have a similar issue.

Using absolute paths the first file is imported correctly but instead of importing the second file it seems to import the first file again. (Strange, i know)

At first I suspected a caching issue but even with different filename the behavior remains.

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@stefankroes I am converting all @import paths from absolute to relative with a bit of Ruby:

def prepare_path_for_import(path)
  reply = Pathname.new path
  # if the path is absolute, return a relative path
  reply.absolute? ? reply.relative_path_from(Pathname.new(Compass.configuration.sass_path)) : reply
end

I am generating this main Sass file in Ruby, so it was pretty easy to add this code to my project. I hope it helps.

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