crashes when using coffee on windows about nodemon HOT 16 CLOSED

Any updates on this issue? I've done a lot of searching trying to figure out how to get this working correctly on windows, but I haven't had any luck yet. Any tips would be appreciated.

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no, it's still not working in 0.6.9
works great for js files, but coffee files give the above error. maybe the author can elaborate on this issue.
if anyone knows a working solution for hot reloading on the windows platform ....

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and 0.6.11

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$ nodemon server.coffee
22 Feb 12:25:11 - [nodemon] v0.6.9
22 Feb 12:25:11 - [nodemon] watching: C:\Projects\Workspace\App
22 Feb 12:25:11 - [nodemon] starting coffee server.coffee
CreateProcessW: The system cannot find the file specified.

22 Feb 12:25:11 - [nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...

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Yep... really wish this was fixed. It makes working on Windows brutal. I guess some people would consider that a good thing though. :-)

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:) really frustrating. do you know any alternatives?

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an alternative is 'supervisor'. but it does not work with coffee either :(
it boils down to node's process.kill statement not really killing the coffee child process. it must be something with the coffee.cmd that i'm using (instead of node.exe):

supervisor --exec node_modules.bin\coffee.cmd index.coffee

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I'm sure I could write one specific to windows that would work, but it seems silly that nodemon can't be fixed. I guess there is some bug or limitation on the Windows platform?

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I'm doing some work on nodemon today, so I'll check this now.

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Just noticed this as well, thanks remy.

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thanks remy, javascript and windows seem to work now. it picks up the changes and kills/restarts the process.

but, coffee still doesn't work : it doesn't pick up the changes when i use this command line :
nodemon -x .\node_modules.bin\coffee.cmd .\server.coffee

without the -x param i get : "The system cannot find the file specified". but it picks up changes, but repeats the error.

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I'm having the same issue as vip32 - the file changes are noticed, but coffee fails after that:

11 Apr 15:30:42 - [nodemon] starting 'coffee app.coffee'
CreateProcessW: The system cannot find the file specified.

11 Apr 15:30:42 - [nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starti
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If it helps, I am starting nodemon by running an external program from Visual Studio, so

program path: c:\Windows\System32\Cmd.exe
arguments: /k nodemon app.coffee & pause & exit
working directory: C:\projects\ApiProxyDemo\aproxi

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I get the same errors...

A version of http://github.com/kuchumovn/node-js-development-mode works for me for now until this bug is resolved:

//my dev.cmd
c:\PROGRA~1\nodejs\node.exe "dev.js" --main-file app.coffee --coffee-script "node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee" --watch "['app.coffee','config/.coffee','controllers/.coffee','lib/.coffee','models/.coffee']" --options "{}"

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same problem here, with windows 7 & latest build from npm.

nodemon app.coffee
18 May 14:45:03 - [nodemon] v0.6.18
18 May 14:45:03 - [nodemon] watching: C:....
18 May 14:45:03 - [nodemon] starting coffee app.coffee
CreateProcessW: The system cannot find the file specified.
18 May 14:45:03 - [nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starti
ng...

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N.B. Another cause of 'CreateProcessW: The system cannot find the file specified." is when nodemon can't find your main executable (node/coffee) on your PATH, or the one it finds on your path doesn't match the expected type (e.g. .exe vs .bat vs .cmd). Try stating the program explicitly with '--exec'.

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@vip32 I know this is a really old issue, and in fact I missed that it was still an issue for you. Could you contribute a simple test that I can use to replicate the issue on windows (I've added a test directory to this repo). I'm thinking of adding something like testing to find the executable...

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