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Using jasmine with ruby

The jasmine gem can be use both with and without Rails.


        

Add the jasmine gem to your gemfile and bundle install

gem 'jasmine'

Setup

To install a default jasmine.yml and a sample jasmine_helper.rb


        

If your project is using Rails, jasmine has generators you can use to get everything set up.

rails g jasmine:install

If your project doesn’t use Rails, all of these commands also exist in the command line tool jasmine. The command line tool will also modify your Rakefile to load the jasmine tasks

jasmine init

Jasmine also has some example specs, with implementation, that you can install.

rails g jasmine:examples
jasmine examples

Use

Once you’ve installed your jasmine.yml two commands will be available to you in rake.


        

If you want to start a server that continues to run so you can point a browser at it

rake jasmine

For use on your CI server

rake jasmine:ci

Configuration

Primary configuration is done in jasmine.yml, which is in spec/javascripts/support by default. jasmine.yml has configuration on what files should be loaded on the page running tests as well as the location of a ruby file to be loaded for more complex configuration, demonstrated below:


        

The jasmine_helper.rb file specified by the spec_helper key in jasmine.yml consists of a configure block.

Jasmine.configure do |config|

You can add rack handlers for specific urls

  config.add_rack_path '/something' do
    [200]
  end

And mount other rack applications

  config.add_rack_app MyRackApp

You can configure the port that the rake jasmine command starts a server on

  config.server_port = 12345

You can configure the port that the rake jasmine:ci command starts it’s server on

  config.ci_port = 54321

You can add custom formatters

  config.formatters << My::Custom::Formatter

You can use a custom runner The runner option on config should be a lambda or Proc that receives a formatter and server url and returns a constructed runner object. The lambda allows you to configure other options that need to be configured at initialization time.

  config.runner = lambda { |formatter, server_url| My::Custom::Runner.new(formatter, server_url, 100) }
end

Configuring the default phantomjs runner

The phantomjs runner supports some additional options.

If you want to see the output from console.log messages from your specs, set showconsolelog to true.

show_console_log: true

If you need to configure the phantomjs webpage object, you can specify a config script.

phantom_config_script: 'relative/path/from/project/root.js'

This file will be required by the phantom runner and the configure function will be passed the constructed page object.

exports.configure = function(page) {
  page.viewportSize = {
    width: 340,
    height: 220
  };
};

Custom Formatters


        

Your custom formatter must implement 2 methods, format and done

class My::Custom::Formatter

format is called by the runner every time it gets a batch of results from the page. The parameter will be an array of Jasmine::Result objects

  def format(results)
    results.each do |result|
      puts result.status
    end
  end

done will be called by the runner after all results have come in.

  def done
    puts 'Done running tests'
  end
end

Custom Runners


        

Once constructed, a runner only needs to implement a run method

class My::Custom::Runner
  def initialize(formatter, jasmine_server_url, result_batch_size)

The formatter passed in is responsible for making sure all configured formatters receive the same messages.

    @formatter = formatter

The jasmine_server_url is the full http://<host>:<port> url where the jasmine server was started

    @jasmine_server_url = jasmine_server_url
    @result_batch_size = result_batch_size
  end

run is responsible coordinating the test run.

  def run

Here we’re using Phantom to load the page and run the specs

    command = "#{Phantomjs.path} 'phantom_jasmine_run.js' #{@jasmine_server_url} #{@result_batch_size}"
    IO.popen(command) do |output|

The phantom_jasmine_run.js script writes out batches of results as JSON

      output.each do |line|
        raw_results = JSON.parse(line, :max_nesting => false)

Formatters expect to get Jasmine::Result objects. It is the runner’s job to convert the result objects from the page, and pass them to the format method of their formatter.

        results = raw_results.map { |r| Result.new(r) }
        @formatter.format(results)
      end
    end

When the tests have finished, call done on the formatter to run any necessary completion logic.

    @formatter.done
  end

If the runner needs some javascript to be loaded into the page as part of the load, it returns the full path in boot_js

  def boot_js
    File.expand_path('runner_boot.js', __FILE__)
  end
end