Errors running rasa init on VSCode

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Hi there,

this is my first time using rasa and I’m trying to use Rasa in VSCode to test the functionality and get to grips with it.

However, after installing rasa, i get this error when running rasa init:

rasa init rasa : The term ‘rasa’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and * try again. At line:1 char:1 + rasa init *+ ~~~~

    • CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (rasa:String) [], CommandNotFoundException*
    • FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException*

I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Python many times over, the same with rasa. If this is extremely obvious or blatantly stupid, I apologise but any help would be greatly appreciated. :smile:

Edit

I have followed the rasa install instructions using pip3 install rasa in the terminal and it doesn’t throw up any errors until I try to run rasa init

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@spuds can you please mention in brief, what steps are you using to install & run rasa and work with VScode?

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I have made an edit to the initial post :slight_smile:

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@spuds Please share rasa --version

@spuds Hi, Just create the python virtual environment with python 3.7 or 3.8

@spuds Activate virtual environment

@spuds Install pip version to 20.0.2

@spuds pip install pip==20.0.2

@spuds Install rasa

 pip install rasa==2.8.0
 pip install rasa-sdk==2.8.0

@spuds check rasa version rasa --version

@spuds rasa train

@spuds rasa shell --debug

I would encourage install the latest version of Rasa If you have started learning Rasa.

For running the code in VS code:

  1. Open the workspace i.e your project folder
  2. Type Ctrl+Shift+P Python interpreter will be open
  3. Select your Python environment or you can manual do this will activating environment for both teriminal conda activate <env name> for rasa and rasa action server.
  4. In terminal you will see your environment run rasa shell --debug if you not train train the model first whilst using rasa train

I hope it will solve your issue. Good Luck!

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Thank you very much for your help, I’ve finally got it working :slight_smile:

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@spuds always welcome! :slight_smile:

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