No application.js

[Arqu]

I've installed node.js, followed the instructions for installation, got ruby and installed sass for the css but when run cake -w server and go to localhost:9294 all I get is a loading screen that sits there forever, when I open my console in Chrome I get the error that application.js is missing. In my public folder there is no application.js to be found. cake minify or cake build don't generate it.

While running the server I get the following on the console:

Server started on 9294
Error: spawn Unknown system errno 193
Error: spawn ENOENT

And while running cake minify I get:

Error: spawn ENOENT

While cake build gives me:

Error: spawn Unknown system errno 193
Error: spawn ENOENT

Any help/guidelines or is something wrong?

[stayradiated]

Have you checked the dependencies are installed?

cd ~/Projects/Nitro
npm install

[Arqu]

Yes, I have, and after re-running it again I get npm WARN package.json app@0.0.1 No repository field.. On the other hand, I've found this which probably has something to do with the whole thing, but I can't really wrap my head around it quite yet, as I'm new to coffee-script and the alike.

[stayradiated]

Which OS are you using? It works fine for me on OS X and Linux, but I haven't tested it on Windows.

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Instead of using cake you could try running the build commands manually.

To create application.js:

cd ~/Projects/Nitro
./node_modules/browserify/bin/cmd.js -t ./node_modules/caching-coffeeify/index.js app/init.coffee -o public/application.js

To create application.css:

cd ~/Projects/Nitro
sass css/index.scss:public/application.css

[Arqu]

Yes, I'm on Windows currently, and it's next to impossible to execute what you wanted, I used full windows paths and got dozens of errors, invalid character at the beginning of the file (#!/usr/bin/env node) then it starts reporting errors that there are returns outside of a function and so on. Anyways, I'll probably turn to Linux tomorrow and use that for development and then just deploy the finished version on Windows.

I did manage to generate the CSS though, it was easy with sass ruby gem.

BTW looking at the Cakefile, you're using *NIX paths, that's probably one reason why it doesn't work under windows.

[stayradiated]

Ok. Another thing to try is to install browserify globally using NPM. I haven't tested this but I think it would work.

npm install -g browserify coffeeify
cd ~/Projects/Nitro
browserify -t coffeeify app/init.coffee -o public/application.js

A potential fix for the Cakefile is to rewrite it using the browserify JS methods, instead of running it through the command line. This would hopefully be platform independent.

[Arqu]

Thanks, that worked. Just after installing the modules globally the command is browserify -t caching-coffeeify app/init.coffee -o public/application.js and then it works like a charm.

[stayradiated]

I've updated the README with commands for building on Windows.