Question

Has anyone tried to install Yeoman in the Cloud9 environment? If so how to do it?

I get this error on any yeoman command:

<FATAL> EACCES, permission denied '/var/lib/stickshift/' </FATAL>

Answer 1

Ok, so I played a little bit with Cloud9 and yeoman 😉

Seems like your error comes mainly from the fact that yeoman is trying to goes up the tree, looking for a Gruntfile.js … Doing so it encounters an issue as the directory it tries to read are not accessible for the current user.

The first work-around is to create an empty Gruntfile.js:

'use strict';
 module.exports = function (grunt) {
 // Project configuration.
 grunt.initConfig({});
 };

Then launching “yeoman init” will ask you the standard questions and at a given point will ask you if it can overwrite the Gruntfile, which you can answer positively 😉

Then if you launch a “yeoman server”, you’ll encounter another error, due to the port the server is willing to answer.

Add the following options to your Gruntfile.js:

  server: {
    port: process.env.PORT,
    host: process.env.IP
},

Note that you also need to have Compass installed (gem install compass).

Then launching “yeoman server’ will launch the server and the needed task (ending with the watch task) …

I didn’t went further down the path though 😉

Hope this helps.