When installing I get: `ember generate` command requires an entity name to be specified

[poetic]

When installing I get: `ember generate` command requires an entity name to be specified

[quantuminformation]

Also when I ran:
ember github-pages:commit --message "Initial gh-pages release"
I got this:
The specified command github-pages:commit is invalid. For available options, see ember help.

[alekspetrov]

I've got the same issue!

[quantuminformation]

I tried on a different 0.2.5 project and have the same error again:

The specified command github-pages:commit is invalid. For available options, seeember help.

[quantuminformation]

Anyone know what the cause if this is? Is it a simplish fix?

[mike-north]

@quantuminformation when you run

ember help

do you see something like this?

If not, I suggest

npm uninstall ember-cli-github-pages --save-dev
ember install [email protected].*

[jhr007]

The specified command github-pages:commit is invalid. For available options, see ember help.

When I got this message it was because ember-cli didn't see the addon in the package.json['devDependencies'] despite it existing in node_modules. Probably an npm install without --save-dev on my part, or the error below stopped npm from writing to package.json (not sure on this last part)

As truenorth said uninstall then ember install. Or manually add to package.json.

The benefit of ember install some-addon is that it runs the default blueprint for that addon which usually includes some prep from the addon.

The ember generate command requires an entity name to be specified. For more details, use ember help.

Ember-cli's install command runs the addon's default blueprint. If the blueprint doesn't have an override for normalizeEntityName, ember-cli is expecting a name, but ember install doesn't provide one. Think ember generate controller some-name but some-name is never passed by ember install.