process.argv

[dvv]

Hi!

Running coffee test.coffee gives process.argv == [node-path, coffee-path] thus info about the script being run is lost.

Any kludge hope to cope?

TIA,
--Vladimir

[dvv]

The workaround is to

process.argv[0] = process.argv[1]
process.argv[1] = __filename

[TrevorBurnham]

I've submitted a patch to fix this by setting process.argv[1] to __filename within coffee. See the pull request at 1092.

Not sure about process.argv[0], though... I think it's best to keep that as 'node'. In principle, CoffeeScript code could be run under other CommonJS frameworks that define process.argv, so pinging process.argv[0] should tell you which environment you're running under. Don't you think?

With the patch, process.argv should be the same whether you run

coffee foo.coffee arg1 arg2

or

coffee -c foo.coffee
node foo.js arg1 arg2

which seems quite sensible to me.

[jashkenas]

Thanks, Trevor -- I've merged your fix to "stable" (and soon to "master") at abfc993 ... closing the ticket.