Print a better error if mongo isn't running

[crobinson42]

I did a fresh git clone, npm install (node v4.4) and setup my env vars correctly - I see this loop over and over with no description of what's failing:

admin@jenkins:~/strider$ ./bin/strider 
1887 forked
1887 died 1 null
1900 forked
^C
admin@jenkins:~/strider$ 

[crobinson42]

Solution

It turns out this is because mongo was not running..

a better error message should be displayed.