Sublime Text 2 OSX Grunt build system woe

Question

I'm trying to use Sublime Text 2s build system to run a Grunt task. I have no issues using Grunt within Terminal. My setup works well on my Windows machine but my Mac hates it.

This is my .sublime-build configuration:

{
  "selector": "grunt.js",
  "working_dir": "${project_path}/js",
  "windows": {
    …
  },
  "osx": {
    "cmd": ["grunt", "--no-color"]
  }
}

And the output returned is:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory

The working directory and path returned are correct. My software versions are:

• OSX 10.8.2
• Node 0.8.9
• NPM 1.1.68
• Grunt 0.3.17
• Sublime Text 2.0.1

Please save me any more frustrated Googling!

Answer 1

Make sure grunt is in your path with sublime (it can be different then your terminal path). To find the path type: npm bin -g . You can set the path in your sublime-build config:

{
  "selector": "grunt.js",
  "working_dir": "${project_path}",
  "path": "/usr/local/bin",
  "osx": {
    "cmd": ["grunt", "--no-color"]
  }
}

Just a nitpick, set the working_dir to the base project path. Not important as grunt will find up until it reaches a gruntfile but that will find the gruntfile slightly faster ;)