Use sass-asset pipeline with grails 5

When trying to use sass in grails 5 by integrating the sass-asset pipeline it is not compiling.

Steps to reproduce

  • Download and install grails 5.0.1

  • Add simple scss file layout.scss to folder assets/stylesheets

  • Add sass-asset pipeline plugin to build.gradle

  • Compile assets

    ./gradlew clean assetCompile --stacktrace
    

The following error is occurring:

* Exception is:
org.gradle.launcher.daemon.client.DaemonDisappearedException: Gradle build daemon disappeared unexpectedly (it may have been killed or may have crashed)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.client.DaemonClient.handleDaemonDisappearance(DaemonClient.java:252)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.client.DaemonClient.monitorBuild(DaemonClient.java:225)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.client.DaemonClient.executeBuild(DaemonClient.java:187)
......

It seems that it is a compatibility problem with the gradle version.