Jasmine failing with Uncaught Reference Error

Question

I am trying to get a project to work properly with Jasmine. I am using the project that I downloaded from here. I added another spec file, PatientSpec.js:

describe('Patient :: Create', function() {
  it("Must note be null", function() {
    require(['models/Patient'], function(Patient) {
      var patient1 = new Patient();
      expect(patient).toBeDefined();
    });
  });
});

You see that my var is named patient1 and I am running the expectation on the variable name patient. When I look at my index.html, all of my tests are passing, and this is obviously not defined. I pull up my console and I here is my error:

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What would cause this error? Why does it fail silently?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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It fails silently cause the error happens in the callback of your require call not in your test. So when the error is thrown after your test has finished. You have to run your test inside of the callback:

require(['models/Patient'], function(Patient) {
  describe('Patient :: Create', function() {
    it("Must note be null", function() {
      var patient1 = new Patient();
      expect(patient).toBeDefined();
    });
  });
});

Take a look at this SO do understand how to test requireJs modules

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Aug 05 '13 at 21:17

Andreas Köberle

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Beautiful, but when I do that then my tests don't show up on my Jasmine result page. How do I get the test describe block to show up and catch the errors on the page? – jhamm Aug 05 '13 at 21:24
Updated my post with a link to description. – Andreas Köberle Aug 05 '13 at 21:39

Jasmine failing with Uncaught Reference Error

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