Running Chimp in cucumber mode on windows produces an error

[kwright1]

Expected behaviour

Chimp starts up without issue.

I think this might be a re-manifestation of an old problem where some cucumber stuff was splitting on ':' for absolute paths

Actual behaviour

module.js:442
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'C'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:440:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:388:25)
at Module.require (module.js:468:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
at Array.forEach (native)
at Object.initializer (C:\Users\Kyle\webdriverio-test\node_modules\cucumber\lib\cucumber\cli\support_code_loader.js:22:25)
at Object.Library (C:\Users\Kyle\webdriverio-test\node_modules\cucumber\lib\cucumber\support_code\library.js:120:25)
at Object.getSupportCodeLibrary (C:\Users\Kyle\webdriverio-test\node_modules\cucumber\lib\cucumber\cli\support_code_loader.js:10:58)
at Object.getSupportCodeLibrary (C:\Users\Kyle\webdriverio-test\node_modules\cucumber\lib\cucumber\cli\configuration.js:126:32)
at Object.getSupportCodeLibrary (C:\Users\Kyle\webdriverio-test\node_modules\cucumber\lib\cucumber\runtime.js:43:46)

Steps to reproduce the problem

I just did a fresh install of node + chimp and tried to run chimp --watch

Used version

• Chimp: 0.39.0
• Node.js: 6.3.1
• Operation system: Windows

Console / Log Output

$ ./node_modules/.bin/chimp --watch
[chimp] Watching features with tagged with @Focus,@dev,@watch

[chimp] Running...
module.js:442
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'C'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:440:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:388:25)
at Module.require (module.js:468:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
at Array.forEach (native)
at Object.initializer (C:\Users\Kyle\webdriverio-test\node_modules\cucumber\lib\cucumber\cli\support_code_loader.js:22:25)
at Object.Library (C:\Users\Kyle\webdriverio-test\node_modules\cucumber\lib\cucumber\support_code\library.js:120:25)
at Object.getSupportCodeLibrary (C:\Users\Kyle\webdriverio-test\node_modules\cucumber\lib\cucumber\cli\support_code_loader.js:10:58)
at Object.getSupportCodeLibrary (C:\Users\Kyle\webdriverio-test\node_modules\cucumber\lib\cucumber\cli\configuration.js:126:32)
at Object.getSupportCodeLibrary (C:\Users\Kyle\webdriverio-test\node_modules\cucumber\lib\cucumber\runtime.js:43:46)

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[GeeChao]

Also getting the same error on my end on Windows. Is there currently a workaround fix for this issue?

[GeeChao]

Have tried version 0.34 as suggested by @samhatoum and is currently working on Windows wth version 4.4.7 of NodeJS

[MacDennis76]

Any idea when this issue will be fixed? Tried the latest version, does not work on Windows 10. Reverting to 0.34 does work.

[samhatoum]

@MacDennis76 which version of node? Have you tried with Node 6.5.0?

[mmcculloch15]

On Windows 7 I'm getting the same error if I update to any version of chimp past 0.38, and any version of node past 5.12.0.

[cloughney]

Same issue here, encountered on multiple machines with Windows 10. Have tried on node v5.11.0 and v6.5.0 with the latest version of chimp. Everything works correctly with chimp v0.34.

[pkoppula15]

I am having the same Issue. Any idea when this would be fixed ? Works fine with 0.34 but I am missing new features of the latest version.

[ghost]

This could be the absolute path that we pass to cucumber for the JavaScript transpilation.

chimp/src/bin/default.js

Line 34 in 91f9daa

compiler: 'js:' + path.resolve(__dirname, '../lib/babel-register.js'),

[samhatoum]

you can test this by overriding the compiler option in a config file, or by passing chimp --compiler=<path to babel-register.js>

[tychedelia]

Specifying the absolute path in my custom configuration doesn't help. I'm successfully able to require babel-register.js using the path returned by path.resolve in the Node REPL, but it still chokes when passed to to cucumber. It looks like cucumber/cli is just mapping require onto the path, so I assume the path is getting mangled somewhere in cucumber. Going to investigate a little more and report back.

[samhatoum]

awesome, thank you @james-mcelwain

[ghost]

Here is the fix: TheBrainFamily/cucumber-js@7fdbc5c. For some reason it is not in the current release anymore.

[tychedelia]

@sanjo Awesome! Any chance you could get this merged to close this? We're trying to get a proof of concept for some automated testing stuff using Chimp and this has been a big annoyance for us. Thanks!

[pkoppula15]

Any update on the new build with the fix ?

[samhatoum]

Fixed in 0.41.0

[samhatoum]

@pkoppula15 and @james-mcelwain please let me know if this works for you

[pkoppula15]

Thanks @samhatoum , I'll give a shot and let you know.

[pkoppula15]

It works now. Thanks @samhatoum .
Node Version : 6.6.0
Chimp Version : 0.41.0

[MacDennis76]

Yes, confirmed working with node 4.5.0. Node 6.6.0 does not work with Chimp on my workstation but it's my guess that the reason is selenium standalone and their NodeJS support policy.