Image upload fails w/ nodejs express

I am trying to upload an image using Node w/ express and I get the following error. I have seen a few questions on this that point to asynch DB calls as the cause of the problem. I would like to use bodyParser as in theory, bodyParser should just pass me to connect and then formidable so I would prefer solutions that do not disable bodyParser.

In my case, I am making no DB calls - all my code is copied below. Any light that anyone could shed on this would be greatly appreciated.

500 Error: parser error, 40 of 44 bytes parsed at IncomingForm.write (/Users/me/Projects/Project/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/node_modules/formidable/lib/incoming_form.js:145:17) at IncomingMessage. (/Users/me/Projects/Project/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/node_modules/formidable/lib/incoming_form.js:95:12) at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:64:17) at HTTPParser.onBody (http.js:121:23) at Socket.ondata (http.js:1026:22) at Socket._onReadable (net.js:683:27) at IOWatcher.onReadable [as callback] (net.js:177:10)

Here is my app.js file (coffee script):

express = require('express') routes = require('./routes') app = module.exports = express.createServer() app.configure(() -> app.set('views', __dirname + '/views') app.set('view engine', 'jade') app.use(express.bodyParser({ uploadDir: '/tmp/upload' })) app.use(express.methodOverride()) app.use(express.cookieParser()) app.use(app.router) app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public')) ) app.configure('development', () -> app.use(express.logger()) app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true })) ) app.configure('test', () -> app.use(express.logger()) app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true })) ) app.configure('production', () -> app.use(express.logger()) app.use(express.errorHandler()) ) app.get('/images/new', (req, res) -> console.log("getting image form") res.render('forms/image_upload', {title: 'Images'}) ) app.post('/images', (req, res) -> console.log("post run") res.send('uploaded') ) app.listen(3000, () -> console.log("Express server listening on port %d in %s mode", app.address().port, app.settings.env) ) 

Here is my form partial (jade):

form#new-images(action="/images", enctype="multipart/form-data", method="post" ) input#image-url(placeholder="Enter image url", type="text") input#image-files(type="file", multiple="multiple") input#submit(type="submit", value="Upload") 

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