Jasmine with Coffeescript Unexpected string Syntax error

Question

I'm trying Jasmine in Coffeescript but when i call jasmine in the terminal, I get this error:

/home/luca/tries/sourcemaps-demo/spec/mainSpec.coffee:1
nction (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { describe 'A suite',
                                                                ^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected string
  at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
  at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
  at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
  at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
  at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
  at require (module.js:380:17)
  at /home/luca/.nvm/v0.10.35/lib/node_modules/jasmine/lib/jasmine.js:63:5
at Array.forEach (native)
at Jasmine.loadSpecs (/home/luca/.nvm/v0.10.35/lib/node_modules/jasmine/lib/jasmine.js:62:18)
at Jasmine.execute (/home/luca/.nvm/v0.10.35/lib/node_modules/jasmine/lib/jasmine.js:145:8)

This is my spec/support/jasmine.json:

{
   "spec_dir": "spec",
   "spec_files": [
     "**/*[sS]pec.coffee"
   ],
   "helpers": [
     "helpers/**/*.coffee"
   ]
}

And this is my spec/mainSpec.coffee:

describe 'A suite', ->
  it 'should return true', ->
    expect(true).toBe true

I'm missing something?

Answer 1

jasmine does not support coffee-script . If You want to write tests in coffee-script , use jasmine-node

$npm install -g jasmine-node
$jasmine-node --coffee spec/
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