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nodenv rehash and node global modules #23

Closed jlord closed 7 years ago

jlord commented 11 years ago

It's a common thing to install global modules with node (there are scripts you just want to execute from the command line as utilities). In Node it is expected that a user can type:

npm install -g niceModule
niceModule

Currently with nodenv when you globally install a module you need to run nodenv rehash to be able to run the module as expected (and commonly documented by the modules).

It would nice to either have nodenv rehash automatically run so that users aren't tripped up and things work as expected or to try using something like the nave module, which is commonly used for versioning node in the community.

@wfarr I'm happy to talk about this more/help out!

farhadahmed commented 9 years ago

I'm still not sure I understand what nodenv rehash does. Why do we need to run this in order to have a module run as expected?