nodeJS jake file Hello World Program Not working

Question

I have a simple hello world jake file, which gives an error:

victors-macbook-pro:votefor Victor$ jake -f jakefile asynchronous

(in /Users/Victor/Documents/workspace/votefor/votefor) Error on line 1 of file [unknown] ReferenceError: Can't find variable: desc

victors-macbook-pro:votefor Victor$ cat jakefile

desc('This is an asynchronous task.');
task('asynchronous', [], function () {
      setTimeout(function () {
          console.log("Yay, I'm asynchronous!");
          complete();
    }, 1000);
}, true);

Is there anything that i am doing wrong ?

The code was copied and pasted from http://howtonode.org/intro-to-jake

Sounds like you are executing the file in a wrong environment. How do you call your tasks? `jake [options] target (commands/options ...)`? — Sebastian vom Meer, Jun 09 '13 at 15:25
hi @SebastianG i have updated my question to show my actions take step by step. thanks! — alcedo, Jun 22 '13 at 07:21
Can you check if node is working properly. Maybe jake installation is broken. How did you install jake ? — user568109, Jun 22 '13 at 08:11

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 09 '13 at 15:58

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You have to execute it like this

jake -f path_to_file.js asynchronous

Be sure to install it globally (I got npm WARN prefer global jake@0.5.16 should be installed with -g)

npm install jake -g

answered Jun 09 '13 at 15:58

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many thanks. i tried what you said, but to no avail. i've updated my question with all the commands i tried too – alcedo Jun 22 '13 at 07:20

nodeJS jake file Hello World Program Not working

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