Gulp server issue while trying to run

Question

I seem to get an odd error when trying to get a project run, its seems to work fine in mac, but i am not able to get it run in Windows/ubuntu

/home/nicholas/Desktop/Workspace/projectx/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/orchestrator/index.js:47
            throw new Error('Task '+name+' can\'t support dependencies that is not an a
                  ^
Error: Task connect can't support dependencies that is not an array of strings
    at Gulp.Orchestrator.add (/home/nicholas/Desktop/Workspace/projectx/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/orchestrator/index.js:47:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/nicholas/Desktop/Workspace/projectx/Gulpfile.js:66:6)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Liftoff.handleArguments (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js:62:18)
    at Liftoff.launch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/liftoff/index.js:144:6)

Answer 1

Looks like you are trying to set up a task, called 'connect', and you have the second argument set to something other than an array of strings or a function.

ie, you have this:

gulp.task('connect', 'some-other-task', function() {
    //...
});

But, it can only be this:

gulp.task('connect', ['some-other-task'], function() {
    //...
});

The reason for the difference is most likely that gulp (or, rather, Orchestrator) was updated on the Windows machine, but not on the Mac. If you run npm list from within the directory on both machines, it should show you the currently installed versions. If you run npm up on the Mac, it most likely will have the same error as the other machine.