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Alex Stanese
Alex Stanese

Reputation: 775

ERROR: Zombie Apocalypse has started

I have a strange error wehn trying to use the ripple emulator. I create a project: phonegap create asdf I enter the project: cd asdf I compile to android: phonegap build android after I want to use the ripple amulator: ripple emulate Chorme opens, I see the message "device is ready" from the default project and after a few seconds it gives me this error: "Looks like what we have here is a failure to... emulate You're seeing this window because it looks like the zombie apocalypse has started. For some strange reason it looks like we are unable to load. This could be a problem with your application, with ours or that you may require more time to finish loading. Hit "Wait" to give your application more time. Hit "FIRE!!" to pick up a shotgun and blow away all all of Ripple's settings in an attempt to purge out the bad stuff."| I use the latest phonegap 3.3 ant the latest ripple 0.9.20 and I have node.js installed and I have the .cordova folder.

This is the console:

Console was cleared ripple.js:37
Ripple :: Environment Warming Up (Tea. Earl Gray. Hot.) ripple.js:37
cordova :: Initialization Finished (Make it so.) ripple.js:37
The key "target-densitydpi" is not supported. localhost/:25
Received Event: deviceready index.js:47
cordova :: fired deviceready event! ripple.js:37

Thank You!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2178

Answers (2)

David Anderson
David Anderson

Reputation: 161

I can see from other comments that you have had the Chrome extension for Ripple installed. This extension is no longer under active development and does not support PhoneGap 3.x. When using Ripple via the command line, the extension should be uninstalled as identified by Riceball LEE.

The error message you identified looks something like this:

Error: static() root path required
at Function.static (C:\Users\dev\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ripple-emulator\node_modules\express\node_modules\connect\lib\middleware\static.js:49:20)
at Object.handle (C:\Users\dev\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ripple-emulator\lib\server\emulate\static.js:6:27)
at next (C:\Users\dev\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ripple-emulator\node_modules\express\node_modules\connect\lib\proto.js:199:15)
at handle (C:\Users\dev\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ripple-emulator\lib\server\emulate\hosted.js:156:17)
...

I'm guessing that it appears in the window of the emulated device and your app does not run.

The latest version of the emulator has changed the way it looks for your source files. ripple emulate should now be run from your app directory (i.e. the folder that contains merge, platforms, www etc). Ripple will expect to find the platforms folder and then drill down into one of the platforms to find your built www folder (e.g. platforms\android\assets\www). It is the content in this folder that will be emulated.

I have encountered this exception in Ripple 0.9.20 when building for Android. It stopped occurring when I changed my emulated device from an iOS device to an Android one. It wasthis post in the Ripple dev mailing list that led me to that solution.

Upvotes: 0

Riceball LEE
Riceball LEE

Reputation: 1591

The error is disappeared after I removed the chrome ripple emulator extension. You can check your browser environment.

Upvotes: 5

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