Guard::JasmineNode

JasmineNode guard automatically & intelligently executes jasmine node specs when files are modified.

It works brilliantly with Node projects whereas guard-jasmine looks better for jasmine specs in the context of e.g. a Rails app.

• Tested against Node 0.8.9, jasmine-node 1.0.26

Requirements

• Node
• jasmine-node
• Ruby and rubygems

Install

Install the gem:

$ gem install guard-jasmine-node

Add guard definition to your Guardfile by running this command:

$ guard init jasmine-node

Usage

$ guard

This will watch your project and execute your specs when files change. It's worth checking out the docs.

Options

• :all_on_start # default => true

Run all the specs as soon as Guard is started.

• :all_after_pass # default => true

When files are modified and the specs covering the modified files pass, run all the specs automatically.

• :keep_failed # default => true

When files are modified, run failing specs as well as specs covering the modified files.

• :notify # default => true

Display growl/libnotify notifications.

• :coffeescript # default => true

Load coffeescript and all execution of .coffee files.

• :forceexit # default => false

Force jasmine-node process to quit after test (can help fix hanging specs)

• :verbose # default => false

Execute jasmine-node in verbose mode

• :spec_paths # default => [spec]

Array of paths containing all specs (supply a comma-separated list of paths to override the default)

• :jasmine_node_bin

Specify the path to the jasmine-node binary that will execute your specs.

The default :jasmine_node_bin in the Guardfile assumes:

• you are running guard from the root of the project
• you installed jasmine-node using npm
• you installed jasmine-node locally to node_modules

If you delete the option completely from the Guardfile, it assumes the jasmine-node binary is already in your $PATH.

So if you have installed jasmine-node globally using e.g. npm install -g jasmine-node, remove the :jasmine_node_bin option from the Guardfile.

Guardfile

Please read the guard docs for more information about the Guardfile DSL.

It's powerful stuff.

Development

• Source hosted at GitHub
• Report issues/Questions/Feature requests on GitHub Issues
• CI at Travis

Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested. Please create a topic branch for every separate change you make.

TODO

• write a JsonFormatter for jasmine-node so we have finer-grained control over rendering output
• write an RSpec-style progress formatter (aka lots of green dots)
• patch Guard to locate CamelCased modules correctly

Testing

Ruby >= 1.9 required.

$ rake

Author

Dave Nolan