Ember-CLI Installation not recognized

Question

I have followed the following tutorial and have successfully installed everything but ember-cli. http://www.ember-cli.com/#getting-started

• node --help (shows output help messages)
• npm --help (shows output help messages )
• npm install -g bower
• npm install -g phantomjs

All the above work with no problems but when I try to ember new my-new-app I got the following

$ ember new my-new-app
-bash: ember: command not found

When I do $ npm install -g ember-cli I get the following

$ npm install -g ember-cli
/Users/MGK/.node/bin/ember -> /Users/MGK/.node/lib/node_modules/ember-cli/bin/ember
[email protected] /Users/MGK/.node/lib/node_modules/ember-cli
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected])
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], quick-         [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])

Any ideas?

Update, here is my echo $PATH

$ echo $PATH
/Users/MGK/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/bin:/Users/MGK/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2@global/bin:/Users/MGK/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/MGK/.rvm/bin

Answer 1

The problem is that npm's path isn't in your $PATH variable, so your shell has no idea where to look for any of your npm modules. There are a few ways to remedy this:

1. Run npm config get prefix. Open your .bash_profile or .bashrc config file and add the following line:

   export PATH="~/.node/bin:$PATH"

   This will add your npm executables to your path. (~/.node/bin was taken from the console output when you installed ember-cli)

   Then run source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.bash_profile depending on which file you edited. This will load the changes you've made to your $PATH. Or:

2. Run npm config set prefix /usr/local (/usr/local since you're on a Mac and it's already in your $PATH).

(See this question for a more general instance of the same npm installation issue.)