Issue with "Sails new" originating with Forever module

[stefanlegg]

Run into this issue if i try to do sails new...
Never experienced this in the past when running sails on my other osx box

/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.8/lib/node_modules/sails/node_modules/forever/node_modules/forever-monitor/lib/forever-monitor/monitor.js:117
utile.inherits(Monitor, broadway.App);
      ^
TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'inherits'
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.8/lib/node_modules/sails/node_modules/forever/node_modules/forever-monitor/lib/forever-monitor/monitor.js:117:7)
    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 Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.8/lib/node_modules/sails/node_modules/forever/node_modules/forever-monitor/lib/index.js:15:24)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)

[stefanlegg]

After digging around and looking at the monitor.js file from Forever I noticed that there was a difference between their require statement and what is shown on the Utile docs...

monitor.js shows

utile = require('utile')

but on https://npmjs.org/package/utile they use require('util')

If I change to using util it seems to make the project successfully, but I'm not sure if this breaks anything else down the line.

[stefanlegg]

Spoke too soon... wasnt paying close enough attention to notice that the docs were showing that utile is a drop in replacement for util

It appears utile does infact have "inherits" so I'm puzzled as to why it says that method doesnt exist

[particlebanana]

I'm not sure what you are trying to do. Running sails new doesn't use the forever module at all. It's not even a dependency of Sails. Once a Sails app has been generated you can run it with forever by using the app.js file that is generated.

$ forever start app.js

[stefanlegg]

All im trying to do is run sails new.... If it doesnt use forever at all then why do i get the following when installing sails from npm

npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/forever/-/forever-0.10.0.tgz

and then the ending output also includes forever

sails@0.8.94 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/sails
├── cookie@0.0.6
├── inflection@1.2.5
├── node-uuid@1.4.0
├── async@0.1.22
├── wrench@1.4.4
├── ejs@0.7.2
├── i18n@0.3.5 (sprintf@0.1.1)
├── underscore.string@2.3.0
├── optimist@0.3.4 (wordwrap@0.0.2)
├── coffee-script@1.6.2
├── parley@0.0.2 (underscore@1.4.2)
├── glob@3.1.14 (inherits@1.0.0, graceful-fs@1.1.2, minimatch@0.2.12)
├── fs-extra@0.5.0 (ncp@0.2.0, jsonfile@0.0.1, mkdirp@0.3.5, rimraf@2.1.2)
├── express@2.5.11 (qs@0.4.0, mime@1.2.4, mkdirp@0.3.0)
├── connect-redis@1.4.5 (debug@0.7.2, redis@0.7.0)
├── connect@1.8.3 (qs@0.6.5, mime@1.2.9, formidable@1.0.14)
├── fs-watch-tree@0.2.2 (when@1.3.0)
├── jade@0.28.0 (commander@0.6.1, mkdirp@0.3.5, coffee-script@1.4.0)
├── clean-css@0.10.1 (commander@1.1.0)
├── winston@0.6.2 (cycle@1.0.2, eyes@0.1.8, stack-trace@0.0.6, colors@0.6.0-1, pkginfo@0.2.1, request@2.9.0)
├── lodash@1.2.1
├── uglify-js@2.2.4 (optimist@0.3.5, source-map@0.1.26)
├── hbs@2.1.0 (handlebars@1.0.9)
├── include-all@0.0.6 (underscore.string@2.3.1)
├── sails-dirty@0.7.4 (dirty@0.9.7, underscore@1.4.2, underscore.string@2.3.3)
├── forever@0.10.0 (watch@0.5.1, timespan@2.0.1, pkginfo@0.2.3, utile@0.1.2, cliff@0.1.8, nconf@0.6.1, nssocket@0.3.8, forever-monitor@1.0.1, flatiron@0.2.3)
├── node-typescript@0.1.3 (typescript@0.8.3)
├── asset-rack@2.1.5 (mime@1.2.7, underscore@1.4.4, nib@0.9.1, coffee-script@1.4.0, stylus@0.32.0, jade@0.27.7, less@1.3.3, node-sassy@0.0.1, snockets@1.3.8, markdown@0.4.0, browserify@1.17.3, pkgcloud@0.6.6)
└── socket.io@0.9.6 (policyfile@0.0.4, redis@0.6.7, socket.io-client@0.9.6)

The pathing of my error even says that it is looking for forever within sails....

[stefanlegg]

forever is also listed as a dependency on line 82

[stefanlegg]

I uninstalled node, npm, and all modules and started from scratch. Seems to work now.
Previously the only thing I had installed before Sails was meteor... so still unsure what I was getting that error.