Error with simple helper about hbs HOT 12 CLOSED

Are you registering the helper before rendering the view? Can you provide a simple example showing the bug.

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Yes my code flow is a bit like this:

var hbs = require('hbs');

// ...

hbs.registerHelper('fromnow', function(val) {
  return 'test';
});

// ....
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'hbs');


// ... then in some route

res.render('view', {user: {name:'aa'}});

My views work fine with the builtin helpers but my own registered helpers always throw that error :(

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Can you tell me what version of hbs you have installed and what version of handlebars?

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been stuck on this for almost 2 hours, do you have any idea of what might be the problem?

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No, I do not. I would recommend removing anything else in the app and creating a minimal broken example with nothing extra.

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Damn it, the bug was cause by this little piece of code:

if(app.get('env') != 'production') {
  // todo: make last_req available
  console.log('');
  console.log('You can now type Javascript expressions in the interactive REPL.');
  console.log('Some useful expressions:');
  console.log('app.routes');
  console.log('app.models');
  console.log('app.lastReq');
  console.log('');
  repl.start('>>> '.green);
}

I still can't figure what might be the problem here :( At least I found the bug

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Just an FYI, I'm running into this now too.

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Some details on my bug. Here is my app.js. You can see I'm regstering the helper (using a simple string for now in the result).

https://gist.github.com/cfjedimaster/5746567

And here is my view:

https://gist.github.com/cfjedimaster/5746569

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Sorry - it must have been a typo. It is working ok now.

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Heh, I see it. I called dateHelper in my view, but it was dateFormat.

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