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By the way, here is the log from $ chef serve
http://dpaste.com/0XQQM2Y.txt

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Ah, very interesting... so I don't know if this has always been the case but it looks like lessc won't output anything if the input file is empty, or has all empty rules... which is why PieCrust can't find the output map file. You can safely ignore the error and continue with pasting the CSS code and it should catch it.

Thanks for reporting though! And while trying to repro, I ran into 2 other bugs :( I guess I know what I'll be doing this week-end when I have free time :)

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You are welcome, and I'm sorry hehe.

Anyway, even after filling up the .less file I get the error.
Couldn't it be that the base map file isn't being created?
I'm not familiar with lessc, so I'm not sure what should be the expected output. Tried to look through https://github.com/ludovicchabant/PieCrust2/blob/master/piecrust%2Fprocessing%2Fless.py but I am of no help here.

Never mind the above paragraph, I left it there for reference of my own mistake.

Just tried a little harder and guess I know what the problem is.
I have no previous frontend experience, so I wasn't aware I had to have lessc installed when I begun (didn't find that mentioned in the tutorial), thus when I figured out it was needed, I apt-get installed it.
This time I tried to install it the proper way, using npm.
Now less is installed locally and I pointed to it on the config file:

less:
  bin: node_modules/.bin/lessc

And when I serve, I get no errors.

So that's it. The error was happening because I was using a system package manager's version which probably is very outdated.

I would just suggest you add a side note in the tutorial regarding given requirement, because another clueless person (like me =P) might also not be aware lessc should be installed.

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Yeah the tutorial is not very complete in that regard. Maybe I'll change it to use a normal CSS file instead of a LessCSS one (so there's no need to install something).

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FYI I changed the tutorial to use standard CSS so people don't need to install Less if they don't have it. I also fixed the bug where an previously non-existing assets folder wasn't detected if you create it while chef serve is running. Now it will pick it up if it appears. And last, if config.yml changes, the background pipeline will also reload it.

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