_.any is not a function

Issue Summary

I just followed the installation instructions to get a new instance of Ghost running on an Ubuntu server. I can get the server started, but once I create an account and go to create a post, I see an alert at the top of the screen which reads “_.any is not a function” and the following error stack is shown in the terminal where I ran “npm start --production”:

ERROR: _.any is not a function 
 
 TypeError: _.any is not a function
    at Object.findStatement (/var/www/ghost/node_modules/ghost-gql/lib/lodash-stmt.js:84:14)
    at /var/www/ghost/core/server/models/plugins/filter.js:53:33
    at /var/www/ghost/node_modules/ghost-gql/lib/lodash-stmt.js:119:22
    at /var/www/ghost/node_modules/lodash/lodash.js:10541:37
    at arrayFilter (/var/www/ghost/node_modules/lodash/lodash.js:588:11)
    at Function.reject (/var/www/ghost/node_modules/lodash/lodash.js:9700:14)
    at Object.rejectStatements (/var/www/ghost/node_modules/ghost-gql/lib/lodash-stmt.js:112:14)
    at Object.combineFilters (/var/www/ghost/core/server/models/plugins/filter.js:52:44)
    at fetchAndCombineFilters (/var/www/ghost/core/server/models/plugins/filter.js:132:41)
    at applyDefaultAndCustomFilters (/var/www/ghost/core/server/models/plugins/filter.js:154:22)
    at Function.findPage (/var/www/ghost/core/server/models/base/index.js:343:24)
    at modelQuery (/var/www/ghost/core/server/api/posts.js:58:38)
    at runTask (/var/www/ghost/core/server/utils/pipeline.js:16:24)
    at /var/www/ghost/core/server/utils/pipeline.js:26:20
    at tryCatcher (/var/www/ghost/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at Object.gotValue (/var/www/ghost/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/reduce.js:157:18)  

Steps to Reproduce

1. Grab the latest version of Ghost from Ghost.org: $ curl -L https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip -o ghost.zip
2. Unzip Ghost into the folder /var/www/ghost (recommended install location):

$ unzip -uo ghost.zip -d /var/www/ghost

Note: You may additionally need to create the /var/www/ directory with the command mkdir /var/www/, or install the unzip package following the instructions for your linux distro)

1. Move to the new ghost directory, and install Ghost (production dependencies only): $ cd /var/www/ghost && npm install --production

2. Start the server in production mode $ npm start --production

Technical details:

• Ghost Version: 0.11.3
• Node Version: 4.2.0
• Browser/OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Database: SQLite3

[kevinansfield]

Hey @kthornsbury and @EwanValentine, sorry to hear you are having trouble. Could you try deleting your node_modules directory and running npm install --production again? It sounds like npm hasn’t installed correctly, unfortunately it has issues quite often that result in these sorts of issues 😞 You may need also need to run npm cache clear first.

[kthornsbury]

Looks like if I run the following commands, everything works as expected:

rm -rf node_modules/

npm cache clear

npm install --production

npm install --save amperize@0.3.1 archiver@1.1.0 bcryptjs@2.3.0 bluebird@3.4.6 body-parser@1.15.2 bookshelf@0.10.2 chalk@1.1.3 cheerio@0.22.0 compression@1.6.2 connect-slashes@1.3.1 cookie-session@1.2.0 cors@2.8.1 csv-parser@1.11.0 downsize@0.0.8 express@4.14.0 express-hbs@1.0.3 extract-zip-fork@1.5.1 fs-extra@0.30.0 ghost-gql@0.0.5 glob@5.0.15 gscan@0.0.15 html-to-text@2.1.3 image-size@0.5.0 intl@1.2.5 intl-messageformat@1.3.0 jsonpath@0.2.7 knex@0.12.5 lodash@^4.17.2 moment@2.15.2 morgan@1.7.0 multer@1.2.0 netjet@1.1.3 node-uuid@1.4.7 nodemailer@0.7.1 oauth2orize@1.5.1 passport@0.3.2 passport-http-bearer@1.0.1 passport-oauth2-client-password@0.1.2 path-match@1.2.4 rss@1.2.1 sanitize-html@1.13.0 semver@5.3.0 showdown-ghost@0.3.6 superagent@2.3.0 unidecode@0.1.8 validator@5.7.0 xml@1.0.1 sqlite3@https://registry.npmjs.org/sqlite3/-/sqlite3-3.1.8.tgz