Meteor call method not found

Question

I'm trying to learn Meteor and coffeescript, but I'm stuck while trying to learn meteor methods calls. I wrote the following code:

client/views/home/home.html

  <template name="home">
     Welcome to my new meteor app
     <input type="button" id='createFile' value="createFile" />
  </template>

client/views/home/home.coffee

Template.home.events
'click #createFile': ->
    Meteor.call 'alwaystrue', (error, result) ->
        console.log error
        console.log result
        return

    console.log 'You pressed the button'  if typeof console isnt 'undefined'
    return

server/metodi.coffee

Meteor.methods
 alwaystrue: -> 
  true

The button when clicked should call a server method from the client, using Meteor.call , but it says that the alwaystrue method is not found.

What am I doing wrong? why my code cant see the methods?

I'm starting from this boilerplate: https://github.com/Differential/meteor-boilerplate , whit the latest node.js/meteor, on the latest ubuntu (14.04).

I don't see anything technically wrong here - it seems like something outside of the question is screwed up. e.g. a file isn't saved, the methods file doesn't actually end in .coffee and isn't being compiled, the method name is misspelled, etc. — David Weldon
Yes It works. After recreating from scratch without using the boilerplate I made it work. I might think it was due to indentation or some packages installed. Thank you very very much for your moral support, please rephrase your comment as an answer so I can elect it as the right suggestion. — Mascarpone

David Weldon David Weldon · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-13T06:00:08

After careful inspection, I don't see anything wrong with the code which leads me to believe something outside of the question is messed up. Try things like:

Make sure all files are saved.
Make sure all of the CoffeeScript files actually end in .coffee.
Check that the method name is spelled correctly in all cases.

If all else fails, you can create a separate project and just add this code to validate it.

Style note - CoffeeScript has implicit returns, so unless you really want to return undefined or you want to return early from a function, you don't need the explicit return statements in Template.home.events.

Meteor call method not found

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