ReferenceError: console is not defined

[sunaku]

I get an Barista::CompilationError on my app/coffeescripts/application.coffee file (which is not the culprit because I ran coffee -c on it successfully) with the following trace:

[Barista] Compiling all scripts for barista
[Barista] Compiling all coffeescripts
[Barista] Compiling application.coffee from framework 'default'
[Barista] There was an error compiling coffeescript from app/coffeescripts/application.coffee:

/tmp/coffee.js20110215-13685-14wc4ac:9
var CoffeeScript = this.CoffeeScript, print = console.log;
                 ^
ReferenceError: console is not defined
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/coffee.js20110215-13685-14wc4ac:9:18)
    at Module._compile (module:384:23)
    at Module._loadScriptSync (module:393:16)
    at Module.loadSync (module:296:10)
    at Object.runMain (module:459:22)
    at node.js:196:8

In my app/views/layouts/application.html.haml file, I have:

= coffeescript_include_tag 'application'

What am I missing? Thanks for your consideration.

[netzpirat]

I had the same problem and did some investigation: The root cause for this issue is a bug in locating the node binary in ruby-coffee-script, that has been introduced in the last version by this commit.

You can work around this bug by simply configure the bin_path:

Barista.configure do |config|
    config.bin_path = '/usr/local/bin/node'
end 

[netzpirat]

I have filed an issue for ruby-coffee-script and sent a pull request that resolves this issue.

[sunaku]

Thanks netzpirat. I tried upgrading to the newly released coffee-script 2.1.3 gem but the same error still occurs. Next I tried setting config.bin_path = 'node' as you suggested and that fixed the error for me.

With some more investigation, I found that I installed nodejs on my Ubuntu machine and then also made a newer local node.js installation via NVM. CoffeeScript was installed locally in my NVM build, but not in the system-wide Ubuntu installation. That was the root cause of those errors.

I uninstalled the system-wide nodejs and now the problem is fully solved!