Unit testing routes?

[mattmarcum]

Hi, I'm trying to unit test a route using ember-mocha. On the guides they show how to do this with the default q-unit framework, but I'm not sure ember-mocha is acting the same way. In the guide example this.subject() will return an instance of the module being tested. When I try to us emeber-mocha with a describeModule('route:someRoute'...) this.subject() returns the class and not an instance of the route like expected.

[kluzny]

Old issue is old, but here is how I did it:

 22 /* jshint expr:true */                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
 21 import { expect } from 'chai';                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 20 import { describeModule, it } from 'ember-mocha';                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 19 import { describe } from 'mocha';                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 18 //import segmentStub from '../../helpers/segment-stub';                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 17                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
 16 describeModule.only(                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
 15   'route:trades',                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 14   'Unit | Route | TradesController',                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
 13   function() {                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 12     describe('#tradesImported()', function() {                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 11       it('refreshes the route', function() {                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 10         let route = this.subject();                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
  9         let refreshCalled = false;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  8         let oldRefresh = route.refresh;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  7         route.refresh = function() { refreshCalled = true; };                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  6         route.send('tradesImported');                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
  5         route.refresh = oldRefresh;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
  4         expect(refreshCalled).to.eq(true);                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
  3       });                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  2     });                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  1   }                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
23  );                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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[Turbo87]

you can also have a look at the now official route-test blueprint for Mocha tests: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/master/blueprints/route-test/mocha-files/tests/unit/__path__/__test__.js