Sails 0.10.1 cannot find module grunt

[gkaimakas]

Just installed sails@0.10.1 and when I lift my server I get the following error:

error: Grunt :: module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module '/home/gkaimakas/node_modules/sails/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:906:3

I saw similar problems in previous versions and every solution said to delete some backslashes from pathToSails.

var pathToSails = __dirname.replace(' ', '\ ') + '/../..';

the thing is that I cannot locate pathToSails anywhere. My server lifts fine though. Can anyone help ?

[RWOverdijk]

@gkaimakas What steps did you take to get to this error? I can't reproduce it with a fresh install. Did you install all dependencies?

[gkaimakas]

I was using version 0.9.16 with no problems and yesterday I decided to
update to the latest version and the error appeared.

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 both at work and home. The problem only appears at
my work machine which I formated just last week
On Aug 6, 2014 9:33 AM, "Wesley Overdijk" notifications@github.com wrote:

@gkaimakas https://github.com/gkaimakas What steps did you take to get
to this error? I can't reproduce it with a fresh install. Did you install
all dependencies?

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[RWOverdijk]

@gkaimakas Did you follow the migration guide? Quite a lot of things have changed and you might have to install all dependencies again. If you're using global grunt, that should probably be updated, too.

You can find the migration guide here.

[gkaimakas]

I fixed it by going to sails directory and installing grunt-cli. Just a
noob mistake but thanks for the help!!!

2014-08-06 9:43 GMT+03:00 Wesley Overdijk notifications@github.com:

@gkaimakas https://github.com/gkaimakas Did you follow the migration
guide? Quite a lot of things have changed and you might have to install all
dependencies again. If you're using global grunt, that should probably be
updated, too.

You can find the migration guide here
https://github.com/sixpounder/sails-docs/blob/master/Migration-Guide.md.

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[RWOverdijk]

Hoorah!

Please close the issue :)

[gkaimakas]

will do!

2014-08-06 10:17 GMT+03:00 Wesley Overdijk notifications@github.com:

Hoorah!

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[leejt489]

I think there may still be an issue here. I hypothesize that the problem lies in updating sails using npm install inside of a pre-existing sails application, when that application already has some of the sails dependencies installed via its package.json or via globally installed packages (such as grunt-cli), then npm install skips installing those dependencies that are higher up, which is fine if they are properly requested with require, but not so good when a binary is being referenced via the relative path.

I'm still relatively new to node and not rock-solid on package management, so I could be totally wrong, but I did notice that when I tried upgrading from v0.10.3 to v0.10.5 that all of a sudden many of the node_modules in sails were no longer there and that seems to explain the issue.

The reason that I think it is a bug is because you should be able to update minor versions without causing problems, and even though this cause a fatal error break the app, it does give an annoying grunt error on lifting and more importantly screws up the asset compilation. It can be fixed by installing grunt-cli as @gkaimakas said, but sails shouldn't be looking for a file that may not be there!

[rmarku]

I have the same problem with sails 0.10.5. If I have grunt-cli in my package.json, npm did not install it in sails/node_modules and sails lift throw the error in module.js:340

What I did to reproduce this error

~ $ sails new myApp
~ $ cd myApp
~/myApp $ rm node_modules/ -rf
~/myApp $ npm install grunt-cli --save
~/myApp $ npm install
~/myApp $ sails lift

I am using linux
node v0.10.33
npm v2.1.11

[Bazze]

This is absolutely still an issue. I'm experiencing the same as @rmarku.

[kt3k]

This seems fixed in this commit and it's included in v0.11 or later.

[vigneshmack]

I created one notepad file I used the command node C:\Users\Vignesh Ravi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\sails\bin\sails.js lift and save as sails.bat file and put into C:\Windows\System32.but still I got an error while using sails lift. can anyone solve this error? Thanks in advance....
C:\Users\Vignesh Ravi\AppData\Roaming\npm>cd xyz

C:\Users\Vignesh Ravi\AppData\Roaming\npm\xyz>sails lift

C:\Users\Vignesh Ravi\AppData\Roaming\npm\xyz>node C:\Users\Vignesh Ravi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\sails\bin\sails.js lift
module.js:487
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Users\Vignesh'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:485:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:437:25)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:605:10)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:158:16)
at bootstrap_node.js:575:3