Error: Cannot find module 'jade~'

Question

Im new to node js. I used Compound Js to create a crud operation.

The app was working fine till i tried to alert a value, after that I'm getting the error

500 Error: Cannot find module 'jade~'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:362:17)
at require (module.js:378:17)

How to resolve this

My index

#tabs
  ul
    li
      a(href='#tabs-1') New Leave
    li
      a(href='#tabs-2') Index of Leave
  #tabs-1
    .page-header
      h1 New employee

    - var form = formFor(employee, {action: pathTo.employees(), method: 'POST', id: "employee_form", class: 'form-horizontal'})

    != form.begin()
    != errorMessagesFor(employee) 
    .control-group
      != form.label("code", false, {class: "control-label"})
      .controls
        != form.input("code")
    .control-group
     != form.label("description", false, {class: "control-label"})
      .controls
        != form.input("description")
    .control-group
      != form.label("applicable", false, {class: "control-label"})
      .controls
        != form.input("applicable")
    .control-group
      != form.label("cForward", false, {class: "control-label"})
      .controls
        != form.checkbox("cForward")
    .control-group
      != form.label("limit", false, {class: "control-label"})
      .controls
        != form.checkbox("limit")
    .control-group
      != form.label("lop", false, {class: "control-label"})
      .controls
        != form.checkbox("lop")
    .control-group
      != form.label("od", false, {class: "control-label"})
      .controls
        != form.checkbox("od")
    .control-group
      != form.label("co", false, {class: "control-label"})
      .controls
        != form.checkbox("co")
    .control-group
      != form.label("lrevision", false, {class: "control-label"})
      .controls
        != form.checkbox("lrevision")
    .control-group
      != form.label("active", false, {class: "control-label"})
      .controls
        != form.checkbox("active")
    .form-actions
      != form.submit('<i class="icon-ok icon-white"></i>  Create employee', {class: 'btn btn-primary'})
      span= ' or '
      != linkTo('Cancel', pathTo.employees(), {class: 'btn'})
    != form.end()
  #tabs-2
    .page-header
      h1 Index of employees


    .row
      .span12
         p
            != linkTo('<i class="icon-plus icon-white"></i> New employee', path_to.new_employee(), {class: 'btn btn-primary'})

    - if (employees.length) {
    .row
      .span12
         table.table.table-striped
           thead
             tr
               th ID
               th.span3 Actions
           tbody
             - employees.forEach(function (employee) {
             tr
               td
                 != linkTo('employee #' + employee.id, path_to.employee(employee))
               td
                 != linkTo('<i class="icon-edit"></i> Edit', pathTo.edit_employee(employee), {class: 'btn btn-mini'}) + ' '
                 != linkTo('<i class="icon-remove icon-white"></i> Delete', pathTo.employee(employee), {class: 'btn btn-mini btn-danger', method: 'delete', remote: true, jsonp: '(function (u) {location.href = u;})'})
             - });
    - } else{
    .row
      .span12
         p.alert.alert-block.alert-info
            strong No employees were found.
    - } 

Layout file

!!! 5
html
  head
    title= title
    != stylesheetLinkTag('http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.9.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css', 'bootstrap', 'application', 'bootstrap-responsive')
    != javascriptIncludeTag('https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.9.1/jquery-ui.js', 'rails', 'application')
    script
      $(document).ready(function() {
        $("#tabs").tabs();
      });
    != csrfMetaTag()
  body
    .navbar
        .navbar-inner
            .container
               a.brand(href='#') Project name

    .container
      - var flash = request.flash('info').pop(); if (flash) {
        .alert.alert-info= flash
      - }

      - flash = request.flash('error').pop(); if (flash) {
        .alert.alert-error= flash
      - }

      != body

      hr
      footer
        p © Company 2012
  != contentFor('javascripts')

Answer 1

The issue was with Fedora-16 that i was working on. The temp file created while editing ie., 'index.jade~' was not cleared and thus the issue came.

The issue can be resolved in Fedora-16 by either deleting the temp file 'index.jade~' or by renaming the node module 'jade' to 'jade~'