NativeClass.name error / could remove dep on mongoskin?

[dcsan]

I hit this error on trying to run your example

/Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/utils.js:33
  var skinClassName = 'Skin' + NativeClass.name;
                                          ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined
    at makeSkinClass (/Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/utils.js:33:43)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/grid.js:6:35)

robe uses monk which depends on mongoskin, which is not maintained and has some issues?
kissjs/node-mongoskin#153

https://github.com/Automattic/monk/graphs/contributors

Since the native mongo driver now has promises, could robe be written to remove this house of cards of dependencies?

seems i now need to dig deep into the dependency chain to downgrade a dep... which seems fragile if it will even work at all.

[dcsan]

node v5.6

npm list robe
[email protected] /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express
└─┬ [email protected] 
  └── UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY [email protected]

npm ERR! peer dep missing: mongodb@~1.4, required by [email protected]

so i uninstalled and reinstalled, but still the same problem

  botkit-express git:(master) ✗ npm install robe

> [email protected] install /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/kerberos
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/kerberos/lib/kerberos.o

> [email protected] install /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/robe/node_modules/monk/node_modules/kerberos
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/kerberos/lib/kerberos.o

> [email protected] install /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/robe/node_modules/monk/node_modules/bson
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bson/ext/bson.o

> [email protected] install /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express/node_modules/robe/node_modules/bson
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bson/ext/bson.o
[email protected] /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express
├─┬ [email protected]
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npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of mongodb@~1.4 but none was installed.
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.
➜  botkit-express git:(master) ✗ npm list robe
[email protected] /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express
└─┬ [email protected] 
  └── UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY [email protected]

npm ERR! peer dep missing: mongodb@~1.4, required by [email protected]

[dcsan]

ok manually installing per this issue

Automattic/monk#114

➜  botkit-express git:(master) ✗ npm list mongodb
[email protected] /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express
├── [email protected] 
├─┬ [email protected]
│ └── [email protected] 
├─┬ [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│   └── [email protected] 
└─┬ [email protected]
  ├── [email protected] 
  └─┬ [email protected]
    └─┬ [email protected]
      └── [email protected] 

➜  botkit-express git:(master) ✗ npm list robe   
[email protected] /Users/dc/dev/rikai/chateditor/botkit-express
└── [email protected] 

[hiddentao]

Glad that worked out for you. - yeah, at some point it would be good to rewrite Robe accordingly.