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Testing JS in Rails - Tuesday May 5th, 2009 @ 1:45pm
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- rake js/fixtures - > will run in browser
- Screw.Unit and Smoke
- You can stub out jQuery and Prototype instead of testing them
- uses HTML fixtures
- but those could be limiting, thus you can do an almost factory girl approach and use jQuery to generate an HTML snippet to act as your HTML fixture
- blueridge plugin for rspec similar testing functionality

From the Git Project Page
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Blue Ridge JavaScript Testing Rails Plugin

The Blue Ridge JavaScript Testing Rails Plugin adds support for command-line and in-browser JavaScript unit tests to your Rails app. It bundles several great tools together in a convention-over-configuration, Rails-like way. These tools include:

    * Rhino - a Java-based JavaScript interpreter
    * Screw.Unit - a behaviour-driven development syntax for JavaScript similar to RSpec
    * Smoke - a JavaScript mocking & stubbing library similar to Mocha
    * env.js - a DOM implementation written entirely in JavaScript
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How to get started?
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- blueridge is a plugin that combines several usefull JS testing tools
- there is an awesome Textmate bundle that gives snippets and allows you to run tests from within Textmate
- Project Page: github.com/relevance/blue-ridge

Benefits
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- BDD JavaScript code similar to rspec or mocha
- Pair programming in JavaScript

Drawbacks
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- based on Screw.Unit whose development is outdated - they're working on this...

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