Installs but only usage help working

[morsedl]

Hi Nick!

Your "german" node.js program looks promising! However, I cannot seem to get it running (Ubuntu 15.10, 64-bit). It installs and prints out the command-line usage help just fine:

root@n1:~# npm install german --global
/usr/local/bin/german -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/bin/german.js
german@0.0.10 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/german
├── colors@1.1.2
├── commander@2.9.0 (graceful-readlink@1.0.1)
├── js-yaml@3.7.0 (esprima@2.7.3, argparse@1.0.9)
└── columnify@1.5.4 (strip-ansi@3.0.1, wcwidth@1.0.1)
root@n1:~# which german
/usr/local/bin/german
root@n1:~# german

  Usage: german [options] [command]


  Commands:

    list        list the verbs I know about
    conjugate   conjugate a verb
    quiz        take a quiz!
    foo         foo!
    foo2        foo2!
    help [cmd]  display help for [cmd]

  Options:

    -h, --help  output usage information

However, anything beyond that seems to generate an error:

For example:

root@n1:~# german list

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:85
    if (Object.keys(verb[key]).length === 0) {
               ^
TypeError: Object.keys called on non-object
    at Function.keys (native)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:85:16
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at calculateIrregularity (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:83:31)
    at setVerbDefaults (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:60:23)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:159:5
    at Array.map (native)
    at load (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:137:50)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:27:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
root@n1:~#

or

root@n1:~# german conjugate haben

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:85
    if (Object.keys(verb[key]).length === 0) {
               ^
TypeError: Object.keys called on non-object
    at Function.keys (native)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:85:16
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at calculateIrregularity (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:83:31)
    at setVerbDefaults (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:60:23)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:159:5
    at Array.map (native)
    at load (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:137:50)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/german/lib/verbs.js:27:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
root@n1:~# 

As you can see, in each of these examples the error is "TypeError: Object.keys called on non-object".

Perhaps it's the version of Ruby with Ubuntu 15.10 that is the problem, as it pre-dates your package? I would not think so, given the rather simple meaning of the error messages, but one never knows. Running "ruby --version" on this system reports "ruby 2.1.5p273 (2014-11-13) [x86_64-linux-gnu]".

Thanks in advance for any insights or assistance.

Cheers!
Doug

[nicksellen]

Sorry for the 3 year delay in responding, but I just published a new version, if it still has the issue and you're still interested let me know!

By the way it's written in nodejs (not ruby), so node --version is the way to tell the version of that. Thanks!