Problem setting up development environment

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I would like to contribute to the project, but I’m failing at setting up my machine to work with.

What I’ve done so far:

• installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as a Hyper-V-Machine (Win 10 [v1607])
• installed git (v2.7.4), node (v6.2.2) and npm (v3.9.5)
• forked pimatic (v0.9.32) to my personal space on github
• cloned my copy to my Ubuntu system and switched to that directory
• copied the config_default.json to config.json
• sudo npm install -> failed because of typechecker -> manually installed typechecker@4.3.0 (not sure if I did that right)
• sudo ./pimatic.js

Here I am struck and have no idea how to continue

21:54:42.929 2016-08-04 Thursday
21:54:43.664 [pimatic] Starting pimatic version 0.9.32
21:54:43.718 [pimatic] Startup error: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/config.json'
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Error (native)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:634:18)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:502:33)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Framework._loadConfig (/home/marie/pimatic/lib/framework.coffee:141:21)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at new Framework (/home/marie/pimatic/lib/framework.coffee:60:8)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at /home/marie/pimatic/startup.coffee:94:21
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at tryCatcher (/home/marie/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Function.Promise.attempt.Promise.try (/home/marie/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/method.js:39:29)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Object.startup (/home/marie/pimatic/startup.coffee:93:10)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at run (/home/marie/pimatic/pimatic.js:15:24)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/marie/pimatic/pimatic.js:20:3)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Module._compile (module.js:541:32)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:550:10)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Module.load (module.js:458:32)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:417:12)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Function.Module._load (module.js:409:3)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at Module.runMain (module.js:575:10)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at run (node.js:348:7)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at startup (node.js:140:9)
21:54:43.718 [pimatic]>    at node.js:463:3
21:54:43.720 [pimatic] exiting...

Why does pimatic try to read config.json from /home/ and not /home/marie/ ?

@Marie

I have followed the instructions given at https://pimatic.org/guide/development/environment/
After the installation, I removed the pimatic folder in node_modules to replace it with a git checkout (git clone).

@mwittig
Thanks, I read the guide, but couldn’t figure out where to put the git checkout. So I tried on my own and failed. I’ll use your approach this afternoon after work.

@Marie said in Problem setting up development environment:

I read the guide, but couldn’t figure out where to put the git checkout

cd pimatic-dev/node_modules
rm -rf pimatic
git clone https://github.com/mariesophie/pimatic.git
cd pimatic
# now you need to run npm install once again in the pimatic folder
sudo npm install --unsafe-perm

@mwittig Thank you very much for the detailed instructions. That did it

pimatic even compiles changed coffeescript files at startup, great.