NativeClass.name error / could remove dep on mongoskin?

[dcsan]

I hit this error on trying to run your example

/Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/utils.js:33
  var skinClassName = 'Skin' + NativeClass.name;
                                          ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined
    at makeSkinClass (/Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/utils.js:33:43)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/grid.js:6:35)

robe uses monk which depends on mongoskin, which is not maintained and has some issues?
kissjs/node-mongoskin#153

https://github.com/Automattic/monk/graphs/contributors

Since the native mongo driver now has promises, could robe be written to remove this house of cards of dependencies?

seems i now need to dig deep into the dependency chain to downgrade a dep... which seems fragile if it will even work at all.

[dcsan]

node v5.6

npm list robe
botkit-express-demo@0.1.0 /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express
└─┬ robe@0.12.0 
  └── UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY mongodb@1.4.40

npm ERR! peer dep missing: mongodb@~1.4, required by mongoskin@1.4.13

so i uninstalled and reinstalled, but still the same problem

  botkit-express git:(master) ✗ npm install robe

> kerberos@0.0.11 install /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/kerberos
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/kerberos/lib/kerberos.o

> kerberos@0.0.3 install /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/robe/node_modules/monk/node_modules/kerberos
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/kerberos/lib/kerberos.o

> bson@0.2.8 install /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/robe/node_modules/monk/node_modules/bson
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bson/ext/bson.o

> bson@0.2.22 install /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/robe/node_modules/bson
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bson/ext/bson.o
botkit-express-demo@0.1.0 /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express
├─┬ babel-cli@6.5.1
│ ├─┬ babel-core@6.5.2
│ │ ├─┬ babel-generator@6.5.0
│ │ │ └── lodash@3.10.1 
│ │ ├─┬ babel-template@6.5.0
│ │ │ └── lodash@3.10.1 
│ │ ├─┬ babel-traverse@6.5.0
│ │ │ └── lodash@3.10.1 
│ │ ├─┬ babel-types@6.5.2
│ │ │ └── lodash@3.10.1 
│ │ └── lodash@3.10.1 
│ ├─┬ babel-register@6.5.2
│ │ └── lodash@3.10.1 
│ ├─┬ chokidar@1.4.2
│ │ ├─┬ fsevents@1.0.7
│ │ │ └─┬ node-pre-gyp@0.6.19
│ │ │   └─┬ tar-pack@3.1.2
│ │ │     └── readable-stream@2.0.5 
│ │ └─┬ readdirp@2.0.0
│ │   └── readable-stream@2.0.5 
│ └── lodash@3.10.1 
├─┬ monk@1.0.1
│ └─┬ mongoskin@1.3.20
│   └─┬ mongodb@1.3.20
│     └── kerberos@0.0.3 
├─┬ node-inspector@0.12.6 
│ ├─┬ biased-opener@0.2.7
│ │ └─┬ browser-launcher2@0.4.6
│ │   └─┬ plist@1.2.0
│ │     └─┬ xmlbuilder@4.0.0
│ │       └── lodash@3.10.1 
│ └─┬ v8-debug@0.7.1
│   └─┬ node-pre-gyp@0.6.21
│     ├─┬ npmlog@2.0.2
│     │ └─┬ are-we-there-yet@1.0.6
│     │   └── readable-stream@2.0.5 
│     ├─┬ request@2.69.0
│     │ └─┬ bl@1.0.2
│     │   └── readable-stream@2.0.5 
│     └─┬ tar-pack@3.1.3
│       └── readable-stream@2.0.5 
├─┬ request@2.69.0
│ └─┬ bl@1.0.1
│   └── readable-stream@2.0.5 
└─┬ robe@0.12.0 
  ├── bluebird@2.10.2 
  ├── eventemitter2@0.4.14 
  ├── generator-compose@0.1.0 
  ├── lodash@3.10.1 
  ├── lodash-deep@1.6.0 
  ├─┬ UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY mongodb@1.4.40
  │ ├─┬ bson@0.2.22 
  │ │ └── nan@1.8.4 
  │ ├─┬ kerberos@0.0.11 
  │ │ └── nan@1.8.4 
  │ └── readable-stream@2.0.5 
  ├── mongoskin@1.4.13 
  ├─┬ monk@0.9.1 
  │ └─┬ mongoskin@1.4.4 
  │   └─┬ mongodb@1.4.4 
  │     ├─┬ bson@0.2.8 
  │     │ └── nan@1.0.0 
  │     └── kerberos@0.0.3 
  └── simple-mongo-schema@0.8.1 

npm WARN mongoskin@1.4.13 requires a peer of mongodb@~1.4 but none was installed.
npm WARN botkit-express-demo@0.1.0 No repository field.
➜  botkit-express git:(master) ✗ npm list robe
botkit-express-demo@0.1.0 /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express
└─┬ robe@0.12.0 
  └── UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY mongodb@1.4.40

npm ERR! peer dep missing: mongodb@~1.4, required by mongoskin@1.4.13

[dcsan]

ok manually installing per this issue

Automattic/monk#114

➜  botkit-express git:(master) ✗ npm list mongodb
botkit-express-demo@0.1.0 /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express
├── mongodb@1.4.40 
├─┬ mongorito@1.4.6
│ └── mongodb@2.1.7 
├─┬ monk@1.0.1
│ └─┬ mongoskin@1.3.20
│   └── mongodb@1.3.20 
└─┬ robe@0.12.0
  ├── mongodb@1.4.40 
  └─┬ monk@0.9.1
    └─┬ mongoskin@1.4.4
      └── mongodb@1.4.4 

➜  botkit-express git:(master) ✗ npm list robe   
botkit-express-demo@0.1.0 /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express
└── robe@0.12.0 

[hiddentao]

Glad that worked out for you. - yeah, at some point it would be good to rewrite Robe accordingly.