Help user understand that we need jiffy.

We should make this an application sooner rather than later.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index b80fa17..e55f165 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Requirements
   A running plop application, which in turn requires mnesia to be
   running.
 
+  jiffie for JSON encoding and decoding.
+
 Start
 
   NOTE: Kludge ahead! ctls will turn into a proper OTP application at
diff --git a/src/https_server.erl b/src/https_server.erl
index a0b81b4..ccbc2e7 100644
--- a/src/https_server.erl
+++ b/src/https_server.erl
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 
 start() ->
     io:format("Starting https server~n"),
+    case code:ensure_loaded(jiffy) of
+        {module, jiffy} -> ok;
+        _ -> io:format("missing jiffy -- please add to load path~n")
+    end,
     %% TODO: put this in httpd_props.conf and use that at erlang
     %% start. inets:start(httpd, {proplist_file, "httpd_props.conf"}).
     ServerRoot = "/home/linus/usr/src/ct/ctls/webroot",