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I'm following the Derby.js getting started guide. I have run

$ npm install -g derby

and everything succeeds, but when I enter 

$ derby new app-name

I get:

-bash: derby: command not found

I'm on Mac OS 10.8, Node v0.10.3, npm v1.2.17

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Check if NODE_PATH and PATH variables contain the location to executable files

export NODE_PATH="/usr/local/lib/node"

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/share/npm/bin:$PATH"

See this page.

user568109
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The command line interface portion of Derby is vaporware so far. There is no bin setting in the package.json, which is what instructs npm to make executable scripts.

I suspect the documentation got ahead of the source code.

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As of June 2014, the docs are still for Derby 0.5 while 0.6 is in npm. Apparently, generator-derby is currently the recommended way to start a 0.6 project:

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-derby
mkdir myapp
cd myapp
yo derby

Make sure to install and start MongoDB and then npm start.

mb21
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