Meteor on Nitrous - Path for Meteor 'Assets'?

Question

I wish to read text from a file in my Meteor app.

I am using Nitrous.io

The app is called 'myApp' and I am using the following code:

var data = Assets.getText('myApp/lib/test.txt');

I get the following error:

Error: Unknown asset: /myApp/lib/test.txt

What is the correct path to my test.txt file in this context?

Answer 1

The path for getText is relative to your application's private subdirectory. So if the file was myApp/private/test.txt, you could read it with Assets.getText('test.txt');. This should be true regardless of the hosting environment.

Answer 2

You can define your path by using the process.env.PWD variable :

var base            = process.env.PWD;
var itemsLocation   = base + '/public/items/';

It should work on Nitrious.