How do I run tests for a single model using mocha/mean.js?

Question

I've been looking into mean.js testing. There's a grunt test task that runs all app with a single and easy grunt test , but I don't want to run all tests everytime.

I've installed mocha globally, and want to run tests for a single model using it, but doing...

mocha 'app/tests/mymodelname.server.model.js'

Throws me back a

"MissingSchemaError: Schema hasn't been registered for model MyModelName"

What would be the easiest way to run single tests for the server?

Thanks!

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Answer 1

Previous replies are completely correct, there's a mongoose loader that is defined within grunt and passed into the 'grunt test' task. Take a look at gruntfile.js : grunt.registerTask('test', ['env:test', 'mongoose', 'mochaTest', 'karma:unit']);

I've looked around for nice solutions to this, and there should be a '--grep' switch to use with Mocha, but getting it passed in through grunt is beyond my current skillset - suggestions welcome!

I'm sure there's a really great way to do this, but for now I've just restricted the test file configuration list when wanting to work with just one test. I've modified ' config\\assets\\test.js ' to point to just one file. It's not pretty, and I'll probably get burned for suggesting it, but it works for me right now.

Answer 2

As robertklep mentioned, the best way to do this is by using the --require option in mocha to require server.js file (which includes all the required initialization for database module and additional stuff).

So in this case if you are running a mean.js app, the right way to do it would be:

mocha 'app/tests/mymodelname.server.model.js' -r server.js

Hope this helps!