Issues with Code Road extension, collated posts

[ILM]

We are aware there is an issue with the CodeRoad extension using GitPod and we are actively investigating, thank you for your patience.

[wesolvenoun]

Tell us what’s happening:

good day. please the Code Road command keeps telling me that I need to open an empty workspace folder, whereas i just started an entirely new project with no record of data at all. This is happening in the relational database boiler plate course and all other courses in the relational database program. please can you fix this? My Code Road was working fine yesterday. I thought the problem was from my end so i created a new account with a new github. but it wont change.

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Learn Bash by Building a Boilerplate - Build a Boilerplate

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[mauroandreslobato]

Tell us what’s happening:

I am not able to open the CodeRoad project. When i select “CodeRoad: Start”, it indeed open the Code Road but it is empty without a guide like previous courses.

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Learn Bash Scripting by Building Five Programs - Build Five Programs

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[mauroandreslobato]

This is something that i found

i can see that CodeRoad is deleted

[ILM]

try starting a new workspace, maybe something went wrong when creating this one

[StarLex_03]

Same happens to me. Creating a new workspace is not a valid solution. I tried several times and it always ends the same. Of course that I tried removing the previous workspaces to ensure that the new workspace was completly “clean”.

[obo2u]

How do I continue from here? I am trying to build the celestial bodies database

[obo2u]

I am lost. how do I continue from here

[ILM]

how did you arrive here? what steps/guide are you following?

[StarLex_03]

Same thing happens to me, we do not nothing special, just clicking the start the course button. When Gitpod is finished loading the notification of port 5432 appears. The way to reach de “Star New tutorial” window is by executing CodeRoad: start. Somethings is wrong and instead of the tutorial, that windows pops up.

[Davidoli]

Tell us what’s happening:

After Virtual machine finishes loading, CodeRoad: Start always state:
Oops!
Select An Empty VSCode Workspace
Start a project in an empty folder.
Once selected, the extension will close and need to be re-started.

It also has 10 pending changes (don’t know if it is normal)

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Learn Bash by Building a Boilerplate - Build a Boilerplate

freeCodeCamp.org

[ILM]

have you tried creating a new workspace?

[StarLex_03]

Same thing happens to me but whith the next lesson

[StarLex_03]

Tell us what’s happening:

Gitpod workspace for the Relational Database course on freeCodeCamp doesn’t initialize correctly. PostgreSQL is missing (port 5432 not found), and Coderoad shows “Select an empty workspace” error. Tried fresh workspaces multiple times.

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Learn Relational Databases by Building a Database of Video Game Characters - Build a Database of Video Game Characters

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[StarLex_03]

Found this in the source control window, some important files seem to be deleted.

The only thing I did was to press the button “Start the course” in the freeCodeCamp page, previuosly deleting all other workspaces to make sure it initialize a completly new one.
The other strange thing tha appears is a notification that says: “A service is available in port 5432”, if I click in Open preview, a web page pops up with: “Port 5432 Not found”.

Idk what’s happening, the thing is that when I run Coderoad: start it shows a button with “Start New Tutorial” and if I click it appears “Oops! Select An Empty VSCode Workspace”.

Please help, I have no idea how to solve it and I want to learn about relational databases D:

pd: I could complete the lesson of learning Bash (the first one).

[udebuanikosisochukwu]

Tell us what’s happening:

I once started the number guessing project but couldn’t finish up because the test is not passing even though the code is working so I started afresh but I couldn’t access codeRoad again showing me open a workspace

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Number Guessing Game - Build a Number Guessing Game

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[moT01]

Hey everyone

Thanks for the reports and digging into this. Unfortunately, gitpod made some changes that made it so tutorials are unable to load. I have replaced the gitpod instructions on the challenge pages with instructions for running the courses locally instead. It’s a bummer, but there’s no other way at the moment. Apologies for any frustrations.

I will continue to investigate to see if we can find a way to allow these to be completed in gitpod - but for now, you will have to run them locally.

If you started any courses on gitpod, I’m not sure if you will be able to continue them. Perhaps you can still go in to those containers and save any code from scripts or database dumps for certs projects to your computer to complete them locally.

Feel free to leave comments or questions.

Thanks and happy coding

[hbar1st]

how should people proceed if they run into problems with their local setup? (Such as Test Runner: Failed messages)
Is there a helpful post on what to do in these cases?

Edit: also I attempted to use the new instructions to setup the Nano course locally but they didn’t work for me. There was no CodeRoad: Start option available after the docker container finished building.

[mazdarix]

Hi. I set up the local environment according to the instructions. After building the docker image using Dev Container, I am having to reinstall CodeRoad for the container itself as it says it is disabled and defined only for the remote host. After that, the lesson test is not running and upon manually clicking the ‘RUN’ button, it gives ‘Test Runner Failed’ message. Please look into the issue. I was doing FCC for the past 10 days and now it feels empty for the past 2 days. Help.