phpunit with composer not working - php

Question

Background: i am on a windows host and sshing into a vagrant LAMP setup (ubuntu 13.04).
I have installed phpunit with composer using the following line in my composer.json:
"require-dev": {
"phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*"
}
I have then run composer update which installed phpunit. I can now navigate to /vendor/bin and see phpunit binary.
However if i type phpunit from within that directory (or anywhere elese for that matter) I get the error "phpunit is not installed"
Any suggestions as to where I go next with this - there are so few steps involved in this setup I really cant see where I could have gone wrong

Answer 1

So I had this issue too, for me the fix was to change in my vagrant file:
config.vm.synced_folder "C:/dev/vm/share", "/var/www/", mount_options: ['dmode=777','fmode=666']
to
config.vm.synced_folder "C:/dev/vm/share", "/var/www/", mount_options: ['dmode=777','fmode=777']
There is a lot of advise saying 666 is permissive enough, but in my case it was not and as this is only a development machine the security implications are not too important.

Answer 2

./phpunit from the bin directory.
It's just not in your path.

Answer 3

I created the script above:
#!/bin/bash
binary=$1
shift
dir=$PWD
for i in $( seq 5 )
do
if [ -e "$dir/composer.json" ]
then
$dir/vendor/bin/$binary $#
else
echo "not found phpunit in $dir"
fi
dir="$dir/.."
done
If you name it 'composer.exec', and put it n your path, you can call it:
composer.exec phpunit [phpunit-options]
And there is it! Calling phpunit or any other bin contained in vendor/bin.