Error when arguments are passed to `manage.py bower install`

[mik3y]

This looks to be a bug in management/commands/bower.py; BaseBowerCommand._install is only used when there are no arguments.

# myapp/settings.py

BOWER_INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'jquery',
)

$ python manage.py bower install
bower jquery#*                  cached git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#2.1.4
bower jquery#*                validate 2.1.4 against git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#*
bower jquery#>=1.2              cached git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#2.1.4
bower jquery#>=1.2            validate 2.1.4 against git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#>=1.2
bower jquery#>=1.6              cached git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#2.1.4
bower jquery#>=1.6            validate 2.1.4 against git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#>=1.6

$ python manage.py bower install -- --allow-root
bower                           ENOENT No bower.json present

[aboudreault]

I'm experiencing the same issue.

[aboudreault]

@mik3y Do you know a workaround for now by chance?

[cteplovs]

Same issue for me.

[aboudreault]

For the moment, I think I will simply create a bower.json and run bower manually.... might remove that django-bower in the next months though.

[athai]

@mik3y I'm having the same problem. Is there any status on this?

[pop]

@nvbn This whole thing (passing flags to bower with -- --flag-name is documented, but doesn't seem to be working? Was there a time that it was working and eventually broke?

[pydolan]

Ran into the same problem, and switching my command fixed the issue:

./manage.py bower_install -- --allow-root --no-input works

whereas ./manage.py bower install -- --allow-root --no-input does not work.

(note the underscored bower_install in the working version)

I see there's a few Issues discussing the confusion between these commands: #17 and #44

[aboudreault]

yeah, bower_install. Thanks @pydolan

[caleb-allen]

using bower_install worked for me as well.

[aj07mm]

not working:

bower ESUDO Cannot be run with sudo

[oesah]

python manage.py bower_install --allow-root worked for me. In addition, I used BOWER_COMPONENTS_ROOT = os.path.join(str(ROOT_DIR('project_name')), 'static', 'components') to save the files in project_name/static/components.

Hope that helps.