startup fails

[georgesnelling]

Hi Patrick,

I'm new to Mongoose and forked your repro to play around with your model code a bit. It's a nice-sized sample app, and I like the way you partitioned it. Unfortunately, my local copy blew up on start. Here's the output:

linkr $ node --version
v0.6.6
linkr $ node server.js

node.js:201
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
^
TypeError: object is not a function
at EventEmitter.CALL_NON_FUNCTION (native)
at Object. (/Users/georgesn/code/linkr/server.js:3:1)
at Module._compile (module.js:432:26)
at Object..js (module.js:450:10)
at Module.load (module.js:351:31)
at Function._load (module.js:310:12)
at Array.0 (module.js:470:10)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:40)

Here's npm ls:

linkr $ npm ls
npm WARN htmlparser@1.7.3 package.json: bugs['web'] should probably be bugs['url']
linkr@0.0.1 /Users/georgesn/code/linkr
├─┬ cluster@0.7.7
│ ├── log@1.2.0
│ └── mkdirp@0.2.1
├─┬ connect-redis@1.2.0
│ └── redis@0.7.1
├── ejs@0.6.1
├─┬ express@2.5.2
│ ├─┬ connect@1.8.3
│ │ └── formidable@1.0.8
│ ├── mime@1.2.4
│ ├── mkdirp@0.0.7
│ └── qs@0.4.0
├── mhash@0.1.4
├─┬ mongoose@2.4.7
│ ├── colors@0.5.1
│ ├── hooks@0.1.9
│ └── mongodb@0.9.7-2-1
└─┬ node.io@0.4.5
├── coffee-script@1.2.0
├── htmlparser@1.7.3
├── jquery@1.6.3
├─┬ jsdom@0.2.10
│ ├── contextify@0.0.7
│ └── cssom@0.2.1
└── request@2.2.9

redis and mongodb are both recent versions and are running and listening to their default ports. Any ideas?

[patrickmccoy]

Hmmm... I haven't done a lot of work on this recently, and thus I am a few versions behind on my node version. It looks like I have similar versions of the dependencies running on my production instance of linkr.

Here are the versions I am running:
[ /web/linkr ]$ node --version v0.5.0-pre [ /web/linkr ]$ npm ls linkr@0.0.1 /web/linkr ├─┬ cluster@0.7.7 │ ├── log@1.2.0 │ └── mkdirp@0.0.7 ├─┬ connect-redis@1.1.0 │ └── redis@0.6.7 ├── ejs@0.4.3 ├─┬ express@2.4.7 │ ├── connect@1.7.1 │ ├── mime@1.2.4 │ ├── mkdirp@0.0.7 │ └── qs@0.3.1 ├── mhash@0.1.1 ├─┬ mongoose@2.3.0 │ ├── colors@0.5.0 │ ├── hooks@0.1.9 │ └── mongodb@0.9.6-20 └─┬ node.io@0.4.0 ├── coffee-script@1.1.2 ├── htmlparser@1.7.3 ├── jquery@1.6.3 ├─┬ jsdom@0.2.5 │ ├── contextify@0.0.5 │ └── cssom@0.2.0 └── request@2.1.1

It may be an issue with the newer version of node, but I am not an expert so I don't know for sure. If I get some time later I will try upgrading to the latest version of node and see if I can duplicate the issue.

[georgesnelling]

There were definitely some compatibility breaks between 0.4 and 0.6, and its taken some of the module authors a while to catch up. you might try upgrading your dev environment to 0.6 and then running npm update and see if it all works. Thanks!

[patrickmccoy]

I'll try it out and keep you posted.