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Brought to you by www.skinnyboard.com Testing JS in Rails - Tuesday May 5th, 2009 @ 1:45pm ============================================== - 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 ====================== 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 ======================= How to get started? ===================== - 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 ===================== - BDD JavaScript code similar to rspec or mocha - Pair programming in JavaScript Drawbacks =================== - based on Screw.Unit whose development is outdated - they're working on this... Brought to you by www.skinnyboard.com

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