Comments on: newjs = newgem for JavaScript projects; free TDD suite

By: Daniel Cadenas

Daniel Cadenas — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:12:09 +0000

Another newgem theme: http://depgraph.rubyforge.org

By: http://jcohen.myopenid.com/

http://jcohen.myopenid.com/ — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:35:51 +0000

Sounds awesome, Nic. I can’t wait to start trying it out this weekend.

By: A Fresh Cup » Blog Archive » Double Shot #146

A Fresh Cup » Blog Archive » Double Shot #146 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:58:51 +0000

[...] newjs = newgem for JavaScript projects; free TDD suite - Dr. Nic adds some structure to quick and dirty JavaScript projects. [...]

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:47:44 +0000

I’ve finished the rewrite of unittest - http://drnicjavascript.rubyforge.org/jsunittest/ Its a drop-in replacement for prototypejs’ unittest.js that has no dependencies on prototype.

newjs 1.2.0 uses this now; so run ‘newjs .’ in your project to get this new asset. The generators are updated too.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:00:13 +0000

Also, I’m working on a version of unittest.js that has no dependencies on prototype.js. It will have the same API as prototypejs’s version (it uses prototypejs’ unit_tests.html as one of its functional tests), so the TM bundle will still work.

Note: as far as I’m aware, for BDDers, JSpec (above) also has no dependencies on any other library.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:58:24 +0000

@Phil [via] - initially I suggest forking newjs, adding in the alternate test suite and updating the generators + templates to use this suite. If people like it, then I could merge it in, provide newjs command-line options to select which one (like newgem has a -t option to chose rspec).

I don’t mean to offload work, but I’m sure Yehuda Katz (wycats) is the right man to help with this - he’s worked with RubiGen before thru Merb.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:50:40 +0000

I wonder if we couldn’t see a JSpec version of this at some point. (http://github.com/wycats/jspec/tree/master)