zkforge create: confusing error message when deploying a contract

[tmrtx]

Component

Forge

Have you ensured that all of these are up to date?

• Foundry
• Foundryup

What version of Foundry are you on?

No response

What command(s) is the bug in?

zkforge create

Operating System

Linux

Describe the bug

After installing foundry-zksync and verifying that everything works with zkcast (balance, get-price, etc.). I've ran zkforge init and zkforge contract deploy cmd:
zkforge create src/Counter.sol:Counter --rpc-url https://zksync2-testnet.zksync.dev:443 --private-key "PK"

The error I get is confusing, not sure where to go from here

[⠒] Compiling...
[⠆] Installing solc version 0.8.13
[⠑] Successfully installed solc 0.8.13
No files changed, compilation skipped
Error:
(code: -32601, message: Method not found, data: None)

[sammyshakes]

try changing the command from:

zkforge create

to:

zkforge zkcreate

or alias:

zkforge zkc

[mm-zk]

uh.. nice catch @sammyshakes - is the "Method not found" coming from the zksync server?

[sammyshakes]

uh.. nice catch @sammyshakes - is the "Method not found" coming from the zksync server?

yea coming from the forge create command trying to access zksync, its basically equivalent to an RPC error

[tmrtx]

@sammyshakes after using zk-create found another confusing error (submitted a PR #82).

Turns out that I needed to run zkbuild before zk-create so that the zkout artifacts are created. If I just run zk-create, it errors out about not finding a file.

Might be a good UX improvement since foundry runs build if you just run create