npm installation of hubot package not under /opt

[marksmall]

First off, nice work, saves a lot of work to start from something like this. Apologies if I've got this all wrong but I followed the basic setup under README.md I believe. The hubot package installed via npm is installed under /usr/local/node/node-v0.12.0/lib/node_modules rather than /opt. This may be due to an existing setup to install node, I'm not sure, but I will remove that existing setup to prove it. Irrespective, I set the root_dir param to /usr/local/node/node-v0.12.0/lib/node_modules so I believe that should still work.

OS: Centos 6
NodeJS: 0.12.0
NPM: 2.5.1

My Usage:

class geodev::edina_hubot {                                                                                                                                                                     
  class { 'hubot':                                                                                                                                                                              
    adapter       => 'slack',                                                                                                                                                                   
    install_nodejs => false,                                                                                                                                                                    
#    root_dir       => '/usr/local/node/node-v0.12.0/lib/node_modules',                                                                                                                         
    build_deps    => [ 'libxml2-devel'],                                                                                                                                                        
    env_export    => {                                                                                                                                                                          
      'HUBOT_LOG_LEVEL'   => 'DEBUG',                                                                                                                                                           
      'HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN' => 'my token'                                                                                                                        
    },                                                                                                                                                                                          
    dependencies  => {                                                                                                                                                                          
      "hubot"                  => "^2.17.0",                                                                                                                                                    
      "hubot-diagnostics"      => "0.0.1",                                                                                                                                                      
      "hubot-google-images"    => "^0.2.4",                                                                                                                                                     
      "hubot-google-translate" => "^0.2.0",                                                                                                                                                     
      "hubot-help"             => "^0.1.2",                                                                                                                                                     
      "hubot-heroku-keepalive" => "^1.0.0",                                                                                                                                                     
      "hubot-maps"             => "0.0.2",                                                                                                                                                      
      "hubot-pugme"            => "^0.1.0",                                                                                                                                                     
      "hubot-redis-brain"      => "0.0.3",                                                                                                                                                      
      "hubot-rules"            => "^0.1.1",                                                                                                                                                     
      "hubot-scripts"          => "^2.16.2",                                                                                                                                                    
      "hubot-shipit"           => "^0.2.0",                                                                                                                                                     
      "hubot-slack"            => "^3.4.2"                                                                                                                                                      
    },                                                                                                                                                                                          
  }                                                                                                                                                                                             
}                                                                                                                                                                                               

I have successfully installed this following the hubot docs, this is where I got the above dependencies. The problem I'm experiencing is the service cannot be started as it expects hubot to be installed under /opt, but it isn't, it's as if the package installation ignores the root_dir parameter.

Any help, thoughts would be appreciated.

[jlambert121]

My guess is /opt is specified somewhere and needs to be updated (maybe in the init script?). I don't run hubot anymore, but am happy to merge PRs to keep this relevant.