Karma task isn't added to Gruntfile when --coffee is specified

[jonniespratley]

To reproduce:

$ yo angular --coffee

$ grunt test

Warning: Task "karma" not found. Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

Execution Time (2014-07-23 20:35:46 UTC)
loading tasks  6ms  ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 86%
Total 7ms

[sanketsahu]

And so, I installed karma manually

$ npm install grunt-karma --save-dev

[eddiemonge]

Yeah this is probably a bug, but more likely a bug in generator-karma since if coffee is specified it won't automatically insert a config block into a Gruntfile.js file.

[eddiemonge]

Solution is probably to spit out a note at the end of the process saying to add the config block yourself.

@sanketsahusoft that doesn't solve this issue.

[cjerdonek]

This also occurred for me, but even without using --coffee. I was using version 0.9.5 of the generator without any command-line arguments, and without Sass and with Bootstrap.

[eddiemonge]

@cjerdonek is that still happening without --coffee? It shouldn't be.

[cjerdonek]

@eddiemonge Yep, I tried it again, and this time with generator-angular 0.9.8. Let me know if there's any additional info you'd like to know.

[cjerdonek]

By the way, I seemed to have a whole host of problems on the bower install & npm install stage of running the generator (it's saying I need to run the commands as root/Administrator which doesn't seem right). So I just inspected package.json manually.

[eddiemonge]

you probably setup npm to use a place you dont have permissions, or the folder you are generating in doesnt

[cjerdonek]

It looks like the .npm folder of my home directory doesn't have the proper permissions. But I don't recall changing anything from what npm does automatically. Anyway, I don't want to distract from the current issue.

[eddiemonge]

do you ever do sudo npm install?`

[cjerdonek]

Only when installing something globally with the -g flag.

[eddiemonge]

You shouldn't need to do that either. You should set your npm prefix to a place you have write access to

[cjerdonek]

Okay, thanks. Really good to know. I've gotten conflicting impressions of that over the time I've been learning about npm, e.g. https://github.com/npm/npm#more-details and https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3139

I'll play around with things to avoid needing sudo.

[batista]

:+1: same issue here with v0.10.0 and no --coffee flag.

to reproduce: new $ yo angular myprojproject with all the default options and then imediately run $ grunt test gives a Warning: Task "karma" not found. Use --force to continue.

do you ever do sudo npm install?`

nope

manually adding the grunt-karma and karma packages to devdependencies in package.json (like in this patch) and then running again npm install solved the issue for me.

[eddiemonge]

@batista Your issue isnt the same one as here since without --coffee the tasks arent added. You probably had npm issues somewhere in the generation.

[krishpop]

I was able to fix it after reinstalling grunt-karma, karma, and karma-jasmine

[toymachiner62]

:+1: