Server Test Timeout about laika

[arunoda]

Okay you get a screenshot of the console?
Also is it possible to share the test code ?

[EricTheMagician]

Here you go. I attached a screenshot with the console and the code. Its really simple tests that I am trying to setup.

If make the test run on the server (ie replace client with server), the test runs.

I installed PhatomJS 1.9.1 through homebrew.

[arunoda]

Hmm, pretty weird.
I updated phantomjs and it works correctly.

Can ensure do you have laika version 0.2.2? (laika -v)
If not upgrade it.

Try to clone https://github.com/arunoda/laika and run tests on the locally.
you can do with npm test

Lets see if it gives an error?

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:32 AM, thejinx0r [email protected] wrote:

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Here you go. I attached a screenshot with the console and the code. Its
really simple tests that I am trying to setup.

If make the test run on the server (ie replace client with server), the
test runs.

I installed PhatomJS 1.9.1 through homebrew.

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[EricTheMagician]

I was running the latest laika version.

When I cloned the repo and ran the test, this is the error I got.

[email protected] test /Users/ericyen/git/laika
node_modules/.bin/mocha -u tdd -R spec -t 5000 --recursive test

sh: node_modules/.bin/mocha: No such file or directory
npm ERR! weird error 127
npm ERR! not ok code 0

I also made sure to reinstall mocha, but I still got the same error.

[arunoda]

You've to first install dependancies with npm install

Then try.

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:13 AM, thejinx0r [email protected] wrote:

I was running the latest laika version.

When I cloned the repo and ran the test, this is the error I got.

[email protected] test /Users/ericyen/git/laika
node_modules/.bin/mocha -u tdd -R spec -t 5000 --recursive test

sh: node_modules/.bin/mocha: No such file or directory
npm ERR! weird error 127
npm ERR! not ok code 0

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[EricTheMagician]

I did that,
And all the tests are passing now.

[arunoda]

Hmm. I wonder what cause the issue.

Can you try evalSync instead sync -
http://arunoda.github.io/laika/syntax-suger.html ?

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:22 AM, thejinx0r [email protected] wrote:

I did that,
And all the tests are passing now.

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[EricTheMagician]

I tried evalSync instead. Same error.
I wrapped the code in evalSync in a setTimeout. Same error.
I replaced client.evalSync with server.evalSync. Same error. ( replacing client with server was previously working)
I replaced server.evalSync with server.eval. it works again.

(Yes, I made sure to comment out the client/server.once call after he evalSync calls)

[EricTheMagician]

Problem partially solved.

I have some server code that loads a fair amount of data into the database.
When I comment out that line of code, it works.

But obviously, I don't want to have to comment out my code to run the test.
So, is there any way for me, from within my code to identify if it is running the laika tests or not?

[kevinharvey]

I had the same problem with some code in a Meteor.startup() block that preloaded a bunch of data. I added an environment variable to my Laika run, checking for the environment variable in the startup script, and not running the load script if the environment variable was true.

Command

$ TEST=1 laika

Code

Meteor.startup(function () {
    if ( !process.env.TEST ) {
        loadData(); // or whatever
    }
});

The downside of course is that you have to create any data you want preloaded in the test. I'd be interested in some way to load data before a test, a la Django fixtures.

[EricTheMagician]

Perfect.
I will do that.

Since it's pretty much solved, and I'm not a heavy github user, I have a github etiquette question.
should I close this issue? or leave it opened as a feature request?

[arunoda]

Fixtures is a features we should badly needed. You can close the issue. We'll open another issue for the fixtures and continue the discussion on it.