Relative destinations. If you omit the dest field then the task will …

…now place compiled js files in the same folder as the src file.

tasks/coffee.js

@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
     var coffee = require('coffee-script'),
         js = '';
 
-    var dest = path.join(destPath,
-                         path.basename(src, '.coffee') + '.js');
+    destPath = destPath ? destPath : path.dirname(src);
+    var dest = path.join(destPath, path.basename(src, '.coffee') + '.js');
 
     options = options || {};
     if( options.bare !== false ) {
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
 
     try {
       js = coffee.compile(grunt.file.read(src), options);
+      grunt.file.write(dest, js);
     } catch (e) {
-      grunt.log.error("Error in " + src + ":\n" + e);
+      grunt.log.error("Unable to compile your coffee", e);
     }
-    if (this.errorCount) { return false; }
-    grunt.file.write(dest, js);
   });
+
 };