how do I tell cake where to look for coffee?

Question

Setting up the express coffee app that twilson63 built. It seems that cake can't find coffee, but they both are ok with which. Is there something else I need to do here? Here's my steps:

jcollum@DEVELOPER01 ~/dev/express-coffee-master
$ which coffee
/c/Users/jcollum/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee

OK coffee is there.

jcollum@DEVELOPER01 ~/dev/express-coffee-master
$ which cake
/c/Users/jcollum/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/cake

And so is cake.

jcollum@DEVELOPER01 ~/dev/express-coffee-master
$ cake
Cakefile defines the following tasks:

cake docs                 # Generate annotated source code with Docco
cake build
cake spec                 # Run Mocha tests
cake test                 # Run Mocha tests
cake dev                  # start dev env
cake debug                # start debug env
cake scaffold             # scaffold model/controller/test

  -n, --name         name of model to `scaffold`

Cake found a cakefile locally.

jcollum@DEVELOPER01 ~/dev/express-coffee-master
$ cake dev

c:\Users\jcollum\dev\express-coffee-master\node_modules\which\which.js:83
  throw new Error("not found: "+cmd)
        ^
Error: not found: coffee
    at Function.whichSync [as sync] (c:\Users\jcollum\dev\express-coffee-master\node_modules\which\which.js:83:9)
    at Object.options [as action] (c:\Users\jcollum\dev\express-coffee-master\Cakefile:121:17)
    at helpers.extend.invoke (c:\Users\jcollum\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\coffee-script\lib\coffee-script\cake.js:44:26)
    at Object.exports.run (c:\Users\jcollum\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\coffee-script\lib\coffee-script\cake.js:69:21)
    at Object.<anonymous> (c:\Users\jcollum\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\coffee-script\bin\cake:7:38)
    at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:492:10)

Bzzzzttt! Nope. I suspect this is an issue with Windows 7 and node not playing all that nicely together.

That cake you refer to is not cakePHP, right? I think you are referring to cake.coffee (simplified version of make for CoffeeScript). I was confused by the tag. — jimiyash, Feb 12 '13 at 20:36
@jimiyash yeah, must've selected the wrong tag; looks like benzado got it thanks benzado — jcollum, Feb 12 '13 at 22:26

jcollum · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-12T23:10:12.427

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Seems the answer was to make sure I had a NODE_PATH in my env:

export NODE_PATH=/c/Users/jcollum/AppData/Roaming/npm:/c/Users/jcollum/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules

Either that, or adding the node_modules to my PATH in .bash_profile.

Got the idea here: https://github.com/replit/jsrepl/issues/56

edited Feb 12 '13 at 23:10

answered Feb 12 '13 at 22:24

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