Comments on: Autotesting Javascript in Rails

By: Effective Rails Testing, Part I: Ajax « The Railsist

Effective Rails Testing, Part I: Ajax « The Railsist — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:34:43 +0000

[...] Nic has a nice blog post on the subject which I’d strongly encourage you to check [...]

By: TJ Holowaychuk

TJ Holowaychuk — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:10:03 +0000

Might want to checkout JSpec

http://visionmedia.github.com/jspec/

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:42:46 +0000

@Jeremy – check which version of newjs you’re using (gem list newjs) as I think the #! line is fixed in 1.4.1

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:45:06 +0000

Cheers for tutorial Dr Nic, V good for noob like myself.
To make this work in Ubuntu i had to change line 1 of script/rstakeout to:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

and to javascript_test_autotest.yml I added:
firefox: ‘/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox.sh’

which seems to work fine

By: Ed Spencer

Ed Spencer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:39:56 +0000

Thanks for this, I’ve got a Windows solution for you.

I had to take the contents of js_autotest and chuck it in with the javascript_test_autotest_tasks.rake, as well as change rake to rake.bat – like this:

# javascript_test_autotest_tasks.rake
namespace :test do
namespace :recent do
#untouched
end

task :javascript_autotest do
system(‘ruby script/rstakeout “rake.bat test:recent:javascript” test/javascript/*_test.html test/javascript/samples/*/* public/javascripts/*.js’)
end
end

Then obviously rake test:javascript_autotest from windows command line and everything seems to work pretty well. I’ve only tested it with a few trivial examples but it detects the right changes and runs the right tests so it looks promising.

It’s pretty trivial but I’ll submit a patch after I get back from the pub.

By: Automating Javascript Unit Tests / Specs - Part 1 — blog.mattwynne.net

Automating Javascript Unit Tests / Specs - Part 1 — blog.mattwynne.net — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:43:08 +0000

[...] think my next step is to take another look at what Thomas Fuchs has been up to, and also this rails-based effort from Dr Nic. We’re using the prototype.js framework anyway, so this seem like it would be a [...]

By: massimiliano

massimiliano — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:35:05 +0000

Great work!!!

On Mac OS X Leopard I had to change the first line of file script/rstakeout to

#!/usr/bin/ruby -w

By: Recompilação dos últimos links interessantes

Recompilação dos últimos links interessantes — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:24:29 +0000

[...] tutoriais e artigos técnicos interessantes que chamaram nossa atenção foram aqueles chamados Autotestando JavaScript em Rails, de Dr. Nic, que explica como testar nossos scripts em JavaScript desde um script em Rails, [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:01:06 +0000

Windows Users have symbolic links! It’s just not well publicized:
http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284
I use this program to easily create them:
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

Looking forward to the upcoming peepcode episode!

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:14:30 +0000

@Scott Becker [via] – sorry Scott The patches have all been applied now so future readers can live in a happy place that you were denied