Read file to string with coffeescript and node.js

Question

I try to read local file with coffescript and node.js. My code:

fs = require('fs')

foo = () ->
  return (fs.readFileSync config, 'utf8')

File is not empty. But when i call foo i got empty string. How can i read file to string correctly?

Thank you

Answer 1

It's difficult to tell what you're doing wrong as you only show part of your program, but here is a demonstration of a similar program working.

test.txt:

testing

test.coffee:

fs = require 'fs'
config = 'test.txt'

foo = ->
  fs.readFileSync config, 'utf8'

console.log foo()

Output:

$ coffee test.coffee
testing