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Ruby

Posted by Matthew McLennan
Matthew McLennan
10,315 Points

ExecJS::RuntimeError in Statuses#index

I'm on a Windows 8 PC. I get this error in the middle of the Ruby "Generate Rails Application" when I type statuses after localhost:3000.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Jose Salazar
Jose Salazar
1,007 Points

In my case deleting the //=require_tree did not solve my problem and i also tried other suggestions and no luck. After a couple of minutes i found that by deleting the <%= javascript_include_tag 'application', 'data-turbolinks-track' => true %> in /app/view/layouts/application.htlm.erb it solved my problem.

7 Answers

Matthew McLennan
Matthew McLennan
10,315 Points
Matthew McLennan
Matthew McLennan
10,315 Points

Got it! Open up treebook\assets\javascripts\application.js

Delete //=require_tree at the bottom of the document.

Dan Browning
Dan Browning
1,038 Points

Thanks a lot - fixed my problem. :)

Oli Chen
Oli Chen
727 Points

FIxed! Thanks

Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner
1,804 Points
Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner
1,804 Points

Removing //=require_tree caused other issues to occur. This is what worked for me:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13530042/execjsruntimeerror-in-usersindex-ror

Hannah McFarlane
Hannah McFarlane
2,810 Points
Hannah McFarlane
Hannah McFarlane
2,810 Points

This worked perfectly for me, too.

Timothy Chan
Timothy Chan
3,715 Points
Timothy Chan
Timothy Chan
3,715 Points

This did not work for me. Still running into problems.

Other thread I'm looking at which also did not work by installing nodejs: http://teamtreehouse.com/forum/ruby-status-issue

Jay Killeen
PLUS
Jay Killeen
Courses Plus Student 3,725 Points
Jay Killeen
Jay Killeen
Courses Plus Student 3,725 Points

I just went through this same problem.

I used the solution found on this page of StackExchange

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13530042/execjsruntimeerror-in-usersindex-ror

The only difference to my solution was I had to modify the runtimes.rb file found under the execjs-2.0.2 directory. In the comments of StackExchange someone tries to correct it and say it should be runtime.rb. That lead me down a path that didn't solve the problem. But the original answer leads you to

"C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby1.9.3\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\execjs-1.4.0\lib\execjs\ru??ntimes.rb"

when it should be

"C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby1.9.3\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\execjs-2.0.2\lib\execjs\ru??ntimes.rb"

Oliver Gibbs
Oliver Gibbs
9,771 Points
Oliver Gibbs
Oliver Gibbs
9,771 Points

Thanks for that, the //=require_tree solution above worked for me. For those that are ahead/finished in the Rails course from this question, how are you finding it using Windows? I'm on Windows 8 and as the lessons are done on a Mac I wondered if these problems are going to keep happening. This four minute video has taken me 20 minutes to get through and I'm wondering if I should just start borrowing my wifes Macbook for this. Thoughts?

Olatunde Alegbe
Olatunde Alegbe
1,177 Points
Olatunde Alegbe
Olatunde Alegbe
1,177 Points

No very little about coding. Playing around with Rails. This is how you solve it. If I can anyone can ;-)!

https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs/issues/81#issuecomment-9892952