Help!

Jasmine fixtures A Pivot was bothered by the occasionally stale state of Jasmine .html fixtures. If you're following a workflow similar to the recent Jasmine Railscast then your fixture files will undoubtable deviate from the 'reality' of your application. JB posted a solution that address the issue of quickly generating and loading .html fixture files, but this Pivot's concern was having to manually kick off that process. It seems like watchr would be a good tool to monitor app/views and call one's fixture generation process.

encoding of regular expressions in 1.9 Executing regular expressions over input of unknown encodings has caused headaches for people using Ruby 1.9. When the encoding of the regex and input differ Ruby throws an Encoding::CompatibilityError. The only solution we've seen is to change the encoding of either the input or expression to match the other, as seen here.

Interesting Things

Jasmine bundled with RubyRacer
Jasmine is now optionally bundled with the RubyRacer gem. This lets you run Jasmine tests through Google's V8 engine in a browser-less environment. Similarly, some Pivots paired Jasmine with Johnson and env.js to produce JazzMoney. Right now, JazzMoney is the only headless testing tool for Ruby that has DOM support, but I'm sure RubyRacer has that in mind. You can find JazzMoney here.

Help

Does anyone know how to run specs with a certain name? We're using RSpec to generate fixtures for our Jasmine tests and want those to be updated right before we run our Jasmine task.

You can set SPEC_OPTS with the 'e' flag and give it a string to match test names. Something like this: rake spec SPEC_OPTS='-e "should generate a fixture"'