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I'm a node newbie and have just started playing around with it. Since I have used rails a fair bit before I wanted to use a framework on node that is built around the same principles as rails. Tower.js seems to fit the bill nicely so I installed it and created a new application just as I would with rails. When I try to run the server I get the following error

$ tower server -e development
node.js:201
    throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'mongodb'
    at Function._resolveFilename (module.js:334:11)
    at Function._load (module.js:279:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:357:17)
    at require (module.js:368:17)
    at Function.lib (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower/server/store/mongodb/configuration.js:36:14)
    at Function.initialize (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower/server/store/mongodb/database.js:28:22)
    at App.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower/server/store/mongodb.js:46:30)
    at Callback.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower/support/callbacks.js:207:23)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower/support/callbacks.js:117:23
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower/application/shared.js:164:14

I have tried the following till now,

  • Launch node console and require('mongodb'). This works!
  • Ensure that mongo is started and it is running on port 27017 as defined in my databases.coffee
  • I can run the application using the command node server.js

Here are the versions of node, npm and tower that I have,

  • node - v0.6.8
  • npm - 1.1.18
  • tower - 0.4.0-10
Moiz Raja
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    hey, move this to github issues and I'll help you out, too specific I think for SO. Otherwise, the recommended way to start the server is `node server`, not `tower server`. Looks like there's a dependency we need to remove, you can probably fix this by installing the mongo module globally: `npm install mongodb -g`. – Lance Apr 21 '12 at 21:34

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