[HowTo] Compiling and Setting Up Build Tools

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Prerequisites

cake is coffee's little sister (or so I picture things). If you installed CoffeeScript using npm then you should already have access to it. If you used cake install you have in fact had first-hand experience with the tool.

If you have symlinked bin/coffee to a new location on your $PATH then you should also symlink bin/cake:

$ ln -s /home/stan/public/coffee-script/bin/cake /usr/local/bin/cake

The above assumes /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH.

An empty Cakefile

Running cake outside of CoffeeScript's main directory is much likely to end up throwing an exception and printing out a stack trace. If you look closely, you can see why things don't work just yet:

Error: Cakefile not found in /home/stan/

So, how about we create one:

$ cd ~
$ vim Cakefile

Leave the file empty for the time being. Run cake again:

$ cd ~
$ cake

This should return immediately without printing anything to stdout.