Comments on CoffeeScript Love: Testing CoffeeScript with Mocha

@Anonymous (2012-03-30): Sheldon's answer wor...

2012-11-16T11:08:02.772-07:00

@Anonymous (2012-03-30):

Sheldon's answer worked for me. So did this:

mocha array-test.coffee -r coffee-script -r should

I'm getting output equivalent to Anonymous, ab...

2012-09-01T02:23:42.191-06:00

I'm getting output equivalent to Anonymous, above.

CoffeeScript 1.2.0, mocha version 1.0.3, should 0.6.3, npm 1.1.2

Jeffs-Work-iMac:dojo_poc jeffdickey$ mocha array-test.coffee --require should

/Users/jeffdickey/src/rails/dojo_poc/array-test.coffee:2
describe 'Array', ->
^^^^^^^

node.js:201
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected string
at Module._compile (module.js:432:25)
at Object..js (module.js:462:10)
at Module.load (module.js:351:31)
at Function._load (module.js:310:12)
at Module.require (module.js:357:17)
at require (module.js:373:17)
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha:273:27
at Array.forEach (native)
at load (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha:270:9)
at Object. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha:261:1)
at Module._compile (module.js:444:26)
at Object..js (module.js:462:10)
at Module.load (module.js:351:31)
at Function._load (module.js:310:12)
at Array.0 (module.js:482:10)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:40)

And it sucks with a very hard vacuum that any HTML to aid formatting is disallowed; no TT, PRE or DIV allowed. There's a fine line between being functional and being paranoid; this isn't even in the same timezone.

Mocha doesn't automatically handle coffeescrip...

2012-05-27T14:40:34.249-06:00

Mocha doesn't automatically handle coffeescript out of the box any more. So now you need to do this:

mocha array-test.coffee --require should --compilers coffee:coffee-script

Installing `mocha` and `should` might not go so ea...

2012-05-10T22:37:57.922-06:00

Installing `mocha` and `should` might not go so easily for you; if Jade breaks, see this comment I made on an `npm` issue, where I documented the process that worked for me.

mocha array-test.coffee -r coffee-script This wor...

2012-04-09T04:12:29.544-06:00

mocha array-test.coffee -r coffee-script

This worked form me:)

make sure you've got coffee-script as a depend...

2012-04-01T06:28:14.614-06:00

make sure you've got coffee-script as a dependency (a devDependency will do)...

Which version of Mocha do you have? Do you have Co...

2012-03-30T11:43:51.954-06:00

Which version of Mocha do you have? Do you have CoffeeScript?

I'll get the latest version today and try for myself, I guess this might be a regression in Mocha though it doesn't seem likely. You might open a Mocha issue on GitHub.

Running into problems trying to test with coffeesc...

2012-03-30T01:39:07.974-06:00

Running into problems trying to test with coffeescript. Running tests on Javascript files succeeds though. Get the following on attempting to run mocha with coffeescript files.

SyntaxError: Unexpected string
at Module._compile (module.js:429:25)
at Object..js (module.js:459:10)
at Module.load (module.js:348:31)
at Function._load (module.js:308:12)
at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
at require (module.js:370:17)
at /home/sameet/testcode/coffeepress/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha:261:27
at Array.forEach (native)
at load (/home/sameet/testcode/coffeepress/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha:258:9)
at Object. (/home/sameet/testcode/coffeepress/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha:249:1)
at Module._compile (module.js:441:26)
at Object..js (module.js:459:10)
at Module.load (module.js:348:31)
at Function._load (module.js:308:12)
at Array.0 (module.js:479:10)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:40)
make: *** [test] Error 1