how to run a coffee-script project in cloud 9

Question

I've been contemplating moving my project over to cloud 9 IDE but have been having trouble running coffee script in the project. I copied over all my js and coffee files but can't seem to get a run configuration working using the coffee files. I tried compiling the coffee files in the console command line as well as creating a run configuration that calls the app.coffee directly but no luck.

What is the coffee script support on cloud 9 and how does it work. Does it compile the coffee script to js automatically? How do I need to configure my run settings in cloud 9?

Answer 1

I got it working... your results may vary, but this is what I did...

Assuming you have your app which is called app.coffee, I created a file called runner.js with the following code:

require("coffee-script");
require("./app");

From the Cloud9 IDE, I just tell it to run the runner.js file and it seems to work.

I also wasn't able to use my global npm-installed packages... not sure why, but I am guessing it is just a pathing issue. Anyways, I just installed my packages into my project directory:

npm install coffee-script

I was also using express and restler in my project so I did the same thing in the project. It worked beautiffuly :)

Answer 2

There is an entry on the Cloud9 support page on running node.js applications written in CoffeeScript: Create a CoffeeScript node.js project. Note that you can only debug the javascript files.