Merge pull request #244 from leider/fix_for_contains

fixing #239 (without changing chai.js)

lib/chai/core/assertions.js

@@ -147,17 +147,24 @@ module.exports = function (chai, _) {
   function include (val, msg) {
     if (msg) flag(this, 'message', msg);
     var obj = flag(this, 'object');
-
-    if (_.type(val) === 'object') {
+    var expected = false;
+    if (_.type(obj) === 'array' && _.type(val) === 'object') {
+      for (var i in obj) {
+        if (_.eql(obj[i], val)) {
+          expected = true;
+          break;
+        }
+      }
+    } else if (_.type(val) === 'object') {
       if (!flag(this, 'negate')) {
         for (var k in val) new Assertion(obj).property(k, val[k]);
         return;
       }
       var subset = {}
       for (var k in val) subset[k] = obj[k]
-      var expected = _.eql(subset, val);
+      expected = _.eql(subset, val);
     } else {
-      var expected = obj && ~obj.indexOf(val)
+      expected = obj && ~obj.indexOf(val)
     }
     this.assert(
         expected

test/expect.js

@@ -492,6 +492,10 @@ describe('expect', function () {
     expect({a:1,b:2}).to.include({a:1,b:2});
     expect({a:1,b:2}).to.not.include({a:1,c:2});
 
+    expect([{a:1},{b:2}]).to.include({a:1});
+    expect([{a:1}]).to.include({a:1});
+    expect([{a:1}]).to.not.include({b:1});
+
     err(function(){
       expect(['foo']).to.include('bar', 'blah');
     }, "blah: expected [ 'foo' ] to include 'bar'");
@@ -507,6 +511,10 @@ describe('expect', function () {
     err(function(){
       expect({a:1,b:2}).to.not.include({b:2});
     }, "expected { a: 1, b: 2 } to not include { b: 2 }");
+
+    err(function(){
+      expect([{a:1},{b:2}]).to.not.include({b:2});
+    }, "expected [ { a: 1 }, { b: 2 } ] to not include { b: 2 }");
   });
 
   it('keys(array)', function(){