MochaRails

MochaRails integrates the Mocha JavaScript test framework with the Rails (>= 3.1) Asset Pipeline.

Note: This project is modeled on Jasminerice and is fairly simple. If you want more features, please consider Konacha, which provides a sandboxed server running on another port, a command-line task, fixtures, transactions, and other goodies. I will continue to maintain and upgrade MochaRails, however, so if its smaller feature set fits your needs, by all means please use it.

MochaRails is a mountable Rails engine that serves a browser-based Mocha test suite, along with your development JavaScript files, via the Asset Pipeline.

It loads Chai for assertions, although since Mocha is decoupled from the assertion library, you can use another assertion library if you choose (or even write your own.)

The Mocha interface system allows developers to choose their style of DSL. MochaRails is hardcoded for now to the "BDD" interface, but if you want to write in one of the other styles, please "+1" the open issue to make it configurable.

In your Rails >= 3.1 app, you must add gem 'mocha_rails' to your Gemfile:

group :test, :development do
  gem 'mocha_rails'
end

MochaRails includes a convenient install generator that adds a route to config/routes.rb and adds a mocha-suite.js Sprockets manifest file to either spec/javascripts or test/javascripts. The mocha-suite.js file does not contain a catch-all require directive, you must add the requires for your production and test paths yourself. Avoid using require_tree . which has caused an issue, instead use more specific requires for each spec or test file, such as //= require ./models/my-model-test.

To install the required configuration, you must run:

rails g mocha_rails:install

The generator has a single option, --mount, which lets you specify the route to your test suite. The default route is /mocha.

Sprockets will not load two files with the same relative asset path and base name, even if they are located in different directories, such as app/assets/javascripts/example.js and test/javascripts/example.js.coffee. In this example, the test file will not be loaded.

One solution is to simply give your test files a different name, for example in test/javascripts/mocha-suite.js:

//= require example
//= require example-test

However, if you prefer to give your test files the same name as your production files, you must then use a different path:

//= require example
//= require test/example

To get you started, here is a sample Mocha test with a should style assertion, to be placed in a file test/javascripts/array-test.js.coffee:

describe 'Array', ->

  beforeEach ->
    @array = [1,2,3]

  describe '#indexOf()', ->

    it 'should return -1 when not present', ->
      @array.indexOf(4).should.equal -1

Start your server in development mode, and open http://localhost:3000/mocha. You should see Mocha's very attractive results page. If you see a completely blank page, or an almost blank page with a few zeros in the upper right corner, check your JavaScript console for errors.

• Chris Smith (quartzmo)

MochaRails was inspired by the design of Jasminerice.

MIT-LICENSE