Need a way to access chai's "should" object

[brettle]

[Edited to reflect that the problem occurs in a meteor velocity testing context.]

When using cucumber-js within meteor velocity, chai.should() is automatically called but there is currently no way to access the object that it returns. That object is normally used like this:

should = chai.should(); 
should.exist(var_which_could_be_undefined);

One solution would be to make the object returned by chai.should() available as global.should.

[goofballLogic]

@brettle Can you post a larger chunk of code showing what you are trying to do? I use chai should with cucumber.js all the time. (Mornag sends his greetings.)

[brettle]

You are probably using the 'should' property like this:

actual.should.equal(expected);

That works fine if 'actual' exists. However to test if it exists Chai provides the should object returned by chai.should() which can be used like in my previous example.

[goofballLogic]

I use it like this:

var should = require( "chai" ).should();

module.exports = function() {

    this.World = new (require( "../support/world.js" ))().World;

    this.Around = require( "../support/around_hooks" );

    this.Given(/^I am on the home page$/, function ( callback ) {

        this.visit( "http://localhost:3000/", callback );

    } );

    this.When(/^I fetch the body text$/, function (callback) {
        // Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions
        this.evaluate( function() { return window.document.body.textContent; }, function( result ) {

            this.bodyText = result;
            callback();

        }.bind( this ) );

    });

    this.Then(/^I should find "([^"]*)"$/, function (expected, callback) {

        should.exist( this.bodyText );
        this.bodyText.should.equal( expected );
        callback();

    });

};

[brettle]

Sorry for not being clear. I'm using cucumber-js via meteor-cucumber and at least in that context, require('chai') fails unless you create and add a separate meteor package which uses Npm.depends() to bring in the chai module. I created this issue at Sam Hatoum's request based on a discussion on the meteor forums. Perhaps require('chai') works fine outside the meteor context?

[goofballLogic]

Yeah, I use it all the time. As far as I know chai isn't a direct dependency of cucumber.js - you have to require it yourself. You can pull in any assertion library you want for a standard node.js project.

[jbpros]

I don't really understand what you expect from Cucumber here. It is agnostic on assertion/testing libraries. If a require() to your assertion module doesn't resolve, it's because you need to install that package (you can't require a dependency of a dependency).

One solution I see is xolvio:cucumber adding should to the global namespace.

Please reopen if you think there's something we can do on Cucumber's side.

[brettle]

Sorry for the confusion. It looks like I should have filed this issue with xolvio/cuke-monkey (now xolvio/chimp). It appears to be fixed there at this point.

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