Setup for testing Backbone in a rails app

1_Gemfile.rb

  #should only need to be done once






  gem 'jasmine'
  gem 'guard-jasmine'
  gem "jasminerice", :git => 'https://github.com/bradphelan/jasminerice.git'  

2_Guardfile.rb

#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#change your port to the port of your application, mine is 5555
################################################################################



guard :jasmine, :server => :webrick, :server_mount => '/jasmine', :port => 5555 do
  watch(%r{spec/javascripts/spec\.(js\.coffee|js|coffee)$}) { 'spec/javascripts' }
  watch(%r{spec/javascripts/.+_spec\.(js\.coffee|js|coffee)$})
  watch(%r{spec/javascripts/fixtures/.+$})
  watch(%r{app/assets/javascripts/(.+?)\.(js\.coffee|js|coffee)(?:\.\w+)*$}) { |m| "spec/javascripts/#{ m[1] }_spec.#{ m[2] }" }
end

3_install jshint.sh

#install node if not already installed


> brew install npm




#Install jshint as a global command
>  npm -g install jshint

4_spec.js.coffee

# This pulls in all your specs from the javascripts directory into Jasmine:






# spec/javascripts/*_spec.js.coffee
# spec/javascripts/*_spec.js
# spec/javascripts/*_spec.js.erb
#
#=require jquery
#=require ../../app/assets/javascripts/application
#=require_tree ./
SESSION = 
  brokerage_id: 61
  current_version: null
  office_id: 6
  pos: ""
  user_id: 1659
  user_name: "Buster Bluth"

5_structure.sh

#should emulate the directory structure of the app itself





~/workspace/pos.rb/spec-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------rich@nimrod2 1.9.2p180 master 6cc570fx
❯ ls -R javascripts/
backbone       fixtures       spec.css       spec.js.coffee

javascripts//backbone:
core_spec.js.coffee models

javascripts//backbone/models:
base

javascripts//backbone/models/base:
base_model_spec.js.coffee

javascripts//fixtures:
'                         example_fixture.html.haml full_client.js.coffee

6_install overcommit.sh

>  cd ~/workspace/pos.rb
>  bundle
>  cd .git/hooks
>  rm -rf scripts
>  rm *
>  cd ~/workspace/pos.rb
>  overcommit .
>  cd .git/hooks
>  chmod 777 *

7_test_overcommit

>  cd ~/workspace/pos.rb
>  echo "//test5" >> app/assets/javascripts/lib/helpers/date_range_picker.js; git commit app/assets/javascripts/lib/helpers/date_range_picker.js -m 'test'

#if you see something like this  then it works

Running pre_commit checks
  Checking author_name........................OK
  Checking js_console_log.....................OK
  Checking js_syntax..........................FAILED
    app/assets/javascripts/lib/helpers/date_range_picker.js: line 44, col 22, 'customConfig' is already defined.

    1 error
  Checking whitespace.........................OK

!!! One or more pre_commit checks failed