Ws: Error: Cannot find module 'ws'

Created on 16 Sep 2013 · 4Comments · Source: websockets/ws

I did sudo npm install -g ws and then wscat thing works. however, if I go to node and do require('ws') I get

Error: Cannot find module 'ws'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at repl:1:10
    at REPLServer.self.eval (repl.js:110:21)
    at repl.js:249:20
    at REPLServer.self.eval (repl.js:122:7)
    at Interface.<anonymous> (repl.js:239:12)
    at Interface.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)

why is that? If I do npm without '-g' then, and try require again, it works.

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makc

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Here is log in case it helps:

localhost:Documents makc$ sudo npm install -g ws
Password:
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ws
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/ws
unbuild [email protected]
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/tinycolor
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/commander
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/nan
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/options
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tinycolor
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/commander
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/nan
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/options
/usr/local/bin/wscat -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ws/bin/wscat

> [email protected] install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ws
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bufferutil/src/bufferutil.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/bufferutil.node
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/bufferutil.node: Finished
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/validation/src/validation.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/validation.node
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/validation.node: Finished
[email protected] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ws
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected]