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2012-4-30 下午6:25 by
James Garza
It now kinda works (somewhat)! Took a lot of mucking around even after getting the instructions (which I would not have been able to get there without!).
I have the compile context menu, and that compiles to coffeescript which is a good start 
I don't plan on using coffeescript for Node, just as a better way of producing js for html work (with couchdb in the background serving up data, and spine.js in the front end)
Though it is nice to be able to use some directly and see the output while I'm learning to write it.
I have NodeJS being able to run the .coffee file once I got your hint...
"Then add a new NodeJS run configuration, specify path to node.exe file, in “Node parameters” put path to CoffeeScript library (in my case it is "C:\Program Files (x86)\coffeescript\bin\coffee"), specify working directory and file to run. That’s all."
But the setup seems pretty screwy, I'm not sure how people are meant to work that out...
Path to Node: points to the node.exe - fine
Node Parameters: "C:\Program Files\coffeescript\bin\coffee" - so... in the parameters we point node to the javascript file we want it to run?
Path to Node App JS File: test.coffee - This is where your .coffee file goes, even though this isn't the node App Js file?
Working Directory: your project directory - fine
Since --watch doesn't work on windows (using Node), I'll have to run the compile every time, AND I need a seperate run/debug configuration for every file which makes it sort of unusable.... (weirdly enough... coffee.exe's --watch does work... which is weird....)
I'll try installing cygwin and seeing if I can get any further running node from there.
My question is answered, but it would be nice if the ide could compile the files into javascript files itself (as it seems to be able to do compile without an issue).
I guess I'm just use to everything else in Idea working perfectly
--- Blair
So it does
So others may follow, this is the setup I am now using.
Note: Node can't detect new files with watch, so if you add another coffee script file then restart the builder.
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UPDATE: I've opened this question as a new post here:
http://devnet.jetbrains.net/thread/435953
I've followed the instruction here (including Blair's recommendations) and it does seem to be working but I never see any compiler errors in the run output window. Window indicates "Process finished with exit code 1" (1 means errors occurred). If I run using the coffee.cmd file in a command window I see the compiler errors. Anyway to pipe the errors to the INTELLIJ run's output window? See attached image. I'm using INTELLIJ 11.1.1.
Message was edited by: James Garza