React_on_rails: ERROR: react_on_rails generator prerequisites not met!

[anjolovic]

Hi guys,

I am getting the following error after running the bundle install and after committing changes:

ERROR: You have uncommitted code. Please commit or stash your changes before continuing
ERROR: react_on_rails generator prerequisites not met!

Any thoughts?

[justin808]

Did make sure that git status reports no uncommitted files?

Just do a git stash or git commit -am WIP

[anjolovic]

Thanks @justin808. Yes I did. I did both git stash and git commit -am and still get the same error.

[justin808]

what does git status show?

what version of React on Rails? Mac OS?

[anjolovic]

My apology for belated reply.

Here is the git status result: modified: Gemfile.lock

I am on 5.1.0, and I am running El Capitan 10.11.2.

This time it worked after I committed the changes, but trust me it did not work on several occasions. It kept throwing an error as above.

[vmpj]

Got the same error:

$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean
$ rails generate react_on_rails:install
Running via Spring preloader in process 42462
ERROR: You have uncommitted code. Please commit or stash your changes before continuing
ERROR: react_on_rails generator prerequisites not met!

Using react_on_rails 5.2.0 on El Capitan 10.11.4

After I removed the spring gem from my Gemfile and did:
$ bundle install
$ spring stop

And I was able to run the generator.

[justin808]

The point is the the generator will will not run if you have open changes. This is so you can carefully see what the generator is changing.

[juhat]

I hated this stuff. It also prohibit from installing if you have untracked files.

[justin808]

@juhat There's an option in the generator to ignore the error.

[juhat]

Oh, dear. Good. I was tired to find it, however this is still super annoying and does not seem to be a good practice.

No offense, I appreciate that you put a lot of effort into this gem. Thanks for doing it!

[justin808]

I updated the README.md.

Commit this to git (you cannot run the generator unless you do this or pass the option --ignore-warnings).