Templates don't seem to be found

[ismith]

If I cd to $GOPATH/src/github.com/flexd/slackinviter/main.go, slackinviter -h runs fine; if not, main.go can't find templates/index.tmpl.

[ismith]

(This is after installing via go get.)

[flexd]

It searches for the templates relative to the binary. When you run go run main.go the binary ends up in /tmp somewhere, and the templates are not copied there. I want to embed the templates in the future, but I'm also lazy and it works for us 😛

On Fri, May 19, 2017, at 11:42 PM, Ian Smith wrote:

(This is after installing via go get.)

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[dmitshur]

You can use something like this to find the directory corresponding to an import path inside GOPATH, and os.Chdir into it during command initialization:

https://github.com/go-gl/example/blob/ee0644b7c5650555db3c0f4d04f9ef5716e6c6ac/gl21-cube/cube.go#L207-L228

[ismith]

Not the go run case - slackinviter is in my PATH, so it can be run from any cwd; but parseFiles loads relative to the cwd. I'll open a PR if I can figure out a way to do this that doesn't break the build. (go-bindata uses go generate, which is nice, but isn't integrated with go build AFAIK.)

I suspect the same issue affects the contents of static/.