Metrics isn't working (fails when starting geddy)

[MiguelMadero]

I might be doing something wrong. I followed the steps from the original tutorial:

Set up metrics by running npm install metrics, and uncomment the metrics entry (metrics: { port: 4001 }) in your config/environment.js file

After doing that and running $ geddy it fails with

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/geddy/node_modules/utilities/lib/core.js:40
          targ[p] = src[p];
                  ^
TypeError: Cannot set property 'port' of null
    at _mix (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/geddy/node_modules/utilities/lib/core.js:40:19)
    at _mix (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/geddy/node_modules/utilities/lib/core.js:36:11)
    at Object.mixin (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/geddy/node_modules/utilities/lib/core.js:81:9)
    at config.readConfig (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/geddy/lib/config.js:51:11)
    at _readConfig (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/geddy/lib/cluster/master.js:36:30)
    at async.AsyncBase.runItem (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/geddy/node_modules/utilities/lib/async.js:108:10)
    at async.AsyncBase.next (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/geddy/node_modules/utilities/lib/async.js:113:12)
    at Master.start (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/geddy/lib/cluster/master.js:251:11)
    at Object.utils.mixin.start (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/geddy/lib/geddy.js:36:9)
    at start (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/geddy/bin/cli.js:111:9)

[larzconwell]

It's because the default defined in lib/base_config.js was null so when it tried to merge in the application config it couldn't assign to the default null.

[larzconwell]

Actually just changing the default option to an empty object causes problems else where, where we are checking for geddy.config.metrics which will return true if it's an empty object. So I think instead, I'll replace the null default and instead edit utilities/lib/core.js and make it so when mixing in items if the target is null it'll skip it instead of attempting to assign values.

[larzconwell]

Ugh that's not working either.

[techwraith]

Do we have any idea when this started happening? Not a whole lot has changed with how the metrics stuff is handled, so it's probably something somewhere else.

@mde or @mikejihbe Any ideas here?

[larzconwell]

@techwraith Nah I think this is something to do with the mixin function in utilities or it's something in lib/config.js because this is before we try to require metrics, it's trying to mix the config.

[techwraith]

@mde could your fix for the production stuff fix this?

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On Oct 13, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Larz Conwell notifications@github.com wrote:

@techwraith Nah I think this is something to do with the mixin function in mde/utilities or it's something in lib/config.js

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