jasmine-node cannot find spec module

Question

I have a barebones spec written in coffeescript:

# test/foobar.spec.coffee

describe "falsy test", ->
  it "should fail", ->
    expect(true).toBe false

when I run jasmine-node --coffee test/foobar.spec.coffee from the project directory, I get the following error:

Exception loading: /Users/myuser/programming/project/test/foobar.spec.coffee
{ [Error: Cannot find module '/Users/myuser/programming/project/test/foobar.spec'] code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND' }

I am using:

node --version
v0.10.8

jasmine-node --version
1.13.0

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with other packages (require, supertest). It seems that if you install them globally (npm install -g) than you get this error. With a local installation (without -g option) everything seems to be normal.

Answer 2

I encountered this error in a weird way.

The following code works,

function someFunc(){
     //do something
}

describe(testCases.testCaseRegister.name, async function(){
    someFunc();

    //ensure ample time for database to be setup properly
    await new Promise(done => setTimeout(done, 5000));
}

But when i changed to this, the error will appear and occasionally, a "Syntax Error: await is only valid in async function"

function someFunc(){
     //do something
     await new Promise(done => setTimeout(done, 5000));
}

describe(testCases.testCaseRegister.name, async function(){
    someFunc();

}

Switching back to my original code, resolved all these errors.