How to access mocha options from within a test file?

Question

I am running mocha tests using gruntjs and grunt-simple-mocha: https://github.com/yaymukund/grunt-simple-mocha

How can I access the options defined in my grunt.js file within each mocha test?

What I would like to accomplish, is to have some common configuration in my gruntfile, and use that in my tests.

Answer 1

The one way I found already is using global values, which is not very good, but works

inside grunt.js config

global.hell = 'hey you';

inside test

console.log(global.hell);

inspecting one more way now, maybe it will be better

--EDIT

No, seems it's the one I will stop at, if I don't want to end up with some black magic like in mocha-as-promised, because i don't have skills to write that.

--EDIT

Also you can take a look at this - https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha/wiki/Shared-Behaviours you can share some object between tests, but not sure if it will help with grunt

Answer 2

As far as I'm aware there is no way to push any objects into your mocha suit. The only other interpretation I can think of for your question, you would like to load a common set of configs among your test files. I dont belive you can, other than at the very top of your test files loading a common config file to be availble to your test methods.