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I have followed the following tutorial and have successfully installed everything but ember-cli. http://www.ember-cli.com/#getting-started

  • node --help (shows output help messages)
  • npm --help (shows output help messages )
  • npm install -g bower
  • npm install -g phantomjs

All the above work with no problems but when I try to ember new my-new-app I got the following 

$ ember new my-new-app
-bash: ember: command not found

When I do $ npm install -g ember-cli I get the following

$ npm install -g ember-cli
/Users/MGK/.node/bin/ember -> /Users/MGK/.node/lib/node_modules/ember-cli/bin/ember
ember-cli@0.1.4 /Users/MGK/.node/lib/node_modules/ember-cli
├── abbrev@1.0.5
├── js-string-escape@1.0.0
├── debug@2.1.0 (ms@0.6.2)
├── temp@0.8.1 (rimraf@2.2.8)
├── symlink-or-copy@1.0.1 (copy-dereference@1.0.0)
├── http-proxy@1.7.3 (requires-port@0.0.0, eventemitter3@0.1.6)
├── broccoli-writer@0.1.1 (rsvp@3.0.14, quick-temp@0.1.2)
├── yam@0.0.17 (findup@0.1.5, fs-extra@0.8.1, lodash@2.4.1)
└── broccoli-caching-writer@0.5.1 (promise-map-series@0.2.0, rimraf@2.2.8, quick-         temp@0.1.2, rsvp@3.0.14, core-object@0.0.2, broccoli-kitchen-sink-helpers@0.2.5)

Any ideas?

Update, here is my echo $PATH

$ echo $PATH
/Users/MGK/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/bin:/Users/MGK/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@global/bin:/Users/MGK/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/MGK/.rvm/bin
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  • Just to clarify, did you try `ember new my-new-app` again after running `npm install -g ember-cli`? – wisew Dec 10 '14 at 06:06
  • Yup, still getting `-bash: $: command not found` – M1lls Dec 10 '14 at 07:14
  • Your paths are probably screwed up. Is `bower` found? Check to make sure the directory containing globally-installed node modules executables is on your path. –  Dec 10 '14 at 07:54
  • @torazaburo That's what I was thinking. @Mills If you have trouble evaluating your path on your own, you could always update your question with the contents of `echo $PATH` – wisew Dec 10 '14 at 14:09
  • @torazaburo yes bower is found, @wisew let me update my question with my `echo $PATH` output, thanks! – M1lls Dec 10 '14 at 16:52

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The problem is that npm's path isn't in your $PATH variable, so your shell has no idea where to look for any of your npm modules. There are a few ways to remedy this:

  1. Run npm config get prefix. Open your .bash_profile or .bashrc config file and add the following line:

    export PATH="~/.node/bin:$PATH"

    This will add your npm executables to your path. (~/.node/bin was taken from the console output when you installed ember-cli)

    Then run source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.bash_profile depending on which file you edited. This will load the changes you've made to your $PATH. Or:

  2. Run npm config set prefix /usr/local (/usr/local since you're on a Mac and it's already in your $PATH).

(See this question for a more general instance of the same npm installation issue.)

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For windows users; Add your nmp path to the PATH environment variable. Start-> Advanced System Settings->Environment Variables

Under the System Variables section, click Path and then edit. Add C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm to the list. After a restart it worked for me.

Hope it helps.

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is there literally that giant gap (tab or spaces) in the in your path when you run $PATH?

if so, your path may be corrupt because of that whitespace. based on the PATH your provided, try doing this to reset your PATH. paste this line into your terminal window:

PATH=/Users/MGK/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/bin:/Users/MGK/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@global/bin:/Users/MGK/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/MGK/.rvm/bin
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  • I updated my $PATH above, the whitespace is not there anymore. Thanks for pointing that out! – M1lls Dec 12 '14 at 19:09
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As said by @wisew, the issue is that npm path not being set in the path variable!

I faced the same issue in my win7 machine, I fixed the issue by adding "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm" to the path variable as below.

  1. open command prompt (cmd) and run setx "%path%;C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm"
  2. Reopen the cmd to confirm the changes
  3. run command ember

You should be seeing that ember command is detected now and is working :)

Thank you!

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