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Interesting Things

• If you are testing with jasmine, it's a good idea to include your CSS files in the test runner. This prevents, for example, issues where you've hidden an element in the CSS and expect it to be visible in your JavaScript. If you are using Sass, then you should regenerate your CSS from the Sass before running the jasmine tests. The current version of haml-edge updates the sass command-line tool with an update command. On one of our client projects, we added the following to our jasmine_config.rb file:

  def update_sass
    puts "Updating sass files..."
    rails_root = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../../../")
    sass_path = "#{rails_root}/vendor/bundler_gems/ruby/1.8/gems/haml-edge-2.*/bin/sass"
    puts `#{sass_path} --update #{rails_root}/app/stylesheets:#{rails_root}/public/stylesheets/generated`
    puts "done."
  end

  alias_method :old_start, :start
  def start(*args)
    update_sass
    old_start(*args)
  end

  alias_method :old_start_server, :start_server
  def start_server(*args)
    update_sass
    old_start_server *args
  end