asciidoctor breaks rendering deck.js backend

I've posted this on StackOverflow but have not received any love over there. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29904527/asciidoctor-breaks-rendering-deck-js-backend

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I am attempting to use the deck.js backend with asciidoctor. I followed the instructions at http://asciidoctor.org/docs/install-and-use-deckjs-backend/. I get the following error:

$ asciidoctor --trace -T asciidoctor-backends/haml deckjs-example.asciidoc 
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- asciidoctor/stylesheets (LoadError)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from /home/worldwidewilly/Dropbox/presentations/adoc-deck/asciidoctor-backends/haml/deckjs/helpers.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/renderer.rb:121:in `block in initialize'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/renderer.rb:69:in `each'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/renderer.rb:69:in `initialize'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/document.rb:743:in `new'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/document.rb:743:in `renderer'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/document.rb:752:in `render'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor.rb:915:in `render'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/cli/invoker.rb:86:in `block in invoke!'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/cli/invoker.rb:79:in `each'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/cli/invoker.rb:79:in `invoke!'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/bin/asciidoctor:13:in `<top (required)>'
    from /usr/local/bin/asciidoctor:23:in `load'
    from /usr/local/bin/asciidoctor:23:in `<main>'

My document - deckjs-example - looks like:

= Asciidoctor Deckjs Example
Bill Turner
:backend: deckjs
:deckjs_theme: web-2.0
:deckjs_transition: horizontal-slide
:navigation:
:blank:
:goto:
:menu:
:status:
:split:
:toc:

== Title of Slide One
Hello World!

[canvas-image="images/groovy.jpg"]
== Slide Two's Title will not be displayed

[role="canvas-caption", position="center-up"]
This text is displayed on top of the example.jpg image.

My directory contains all the things that I seem to need to have installed:

$ ls
total 32K
22021551 drwxr-xr-x 7 worldwidewilly worldwidewilly 4.0K Apr 27 13:38 asciidoctor-backends
24910534 drwxr-xr-x 8 worldwidewilly worldwidewilly 4.0K Apr 21 20:30 deck.js
  527971 -rw-r--r-- 1 worldwidewilly worldwidewilly  394 Apr 27 14:01 deckjs-example.asciidoc
26740079 drwxr-xr-x 2 worldwidewilly worldwidewilly 4.0K Apr 27 14:00 images

I presume a configuration problem. Searching has yet to reveal a solution - though I did find something here in this discussion group that looked very similar. However, the solutions did not seem to fit my situation.

Looks like you're using a MUCH older version of asciidoctor, 0.1.4. All the backends in that repo I believe have been updated to asciidoctor 1.5.x. The current version of asciidoctor is 1.5.2. Try updating asciidoctor and see if things work better. 

On Monday, April 27, 2015, bill turner [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I've posted this on StackOverflow but have not received any love over there. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29904527/asciidoctor-breaks-rendering-deck-js-backend

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I am attempting to use the deck.js backend with asciidoctor. I followed the instructions at http://asciidoctor.org/docs/install-and-use-deckjs-backend/. I get the following error:

$ asciidoctor --trace -T asciidoctor-backends/haml deckjs-example.asciidoc 
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- asciidoctor/stylesheets (LoadError)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from /home/worldwidewilly/Dropbox/presentations/adoc-deck/asciidoctor-backends/haml/deckjs/helpers.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/renderer.rb:121:in `block in initialize'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/renderer.rb:69:in `each'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/renderer.rb:69:in `initialize'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/document.rb:743:in `new'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/document.rb:743:in `renderer'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/document.rb:752:in `render'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor.rb:915:in `render'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/cli/invoker.rb:86:in `block in invoke!'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/cli/invoker.rb:79:in `each'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/lib/asciidoctor/cli/invoker.rb:79:in `invoke!'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/asciidoctor-0.1.4/bin/asciidoctor:13:in `<top (required)>'
    from /usr/local/bin/asciidoctor:23:in `load'
    from /usr/local/bin/asciidoctor:23:in `<main>'

My document - deckjs-example - looks like:

= Asciidoctor Deckjs Example
Bill Turner
:backend: deckjs
:deckjs_theme: web-2.0
:deckjs_transition: horizontal-slide
:navigation:
:blank:
:goto:
:menu:
:status:
:split:
:toc:

== Title of Slide One
Hello World!

[canvas-image="images/groovy.jpg"]
== Slide Two's Title will not be displayed

[role="canvas-caption", position="center-up"]
This text is displayed on top of the example.jpg image.

My directory contains all the things that I seem to need to have installed:

$ ls
total 32K
22021551 drwxr-xr-x 7 worldwidewilly worldwidewilly 4.0K Apr 27 13:38 asciidoctor-backends
24910534 drwxr-xr-x 8 worldwidewilly worldwidewilly 4.0K Apr 21 20:30 deck.js
  527971 -rw-r--r-- 1 worldwidewilly worldwidewilly  394 Apr 27 14:01 deckjs-example.asciidoc
26740079 drwxr-xr-x 2 worldwidewilly worldwidewilly 4.0K Apr 27 14:00 images

I presume a configuration problem. Searching has yet to reveal a solution - though I did find something here in this discussion group that looked very similar. However, the solutions did not seem to fit my situation.

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I used the Linux Mint PPA to install asciidoctor. I should have known better. Thanks for the input. I will be offline for the next few days as I travel across the country by train (no wifi on the long haul Amtrak trains), but I did update the version, so I will be able to test it out. If I continue to have problems, I will post again after completing my journey.