QUnit object is not present on this page

[tborychowski]

I'm trying to switch from grunt to gulp and have some problems with this plugin.

This is what I have (and the same works for grunt-contrib-qunit):

gulp.task('test', function () { 
    return gulp.src('tests/*.html').pipe(qunit()); 
});

but I'm getting this error in the console:

[gulp] Finished 'test' in 9.96 ms
The `QUnit` object is not present on this page.

{ [Error: Command failed: ] killed: false, code: 1, signal: null }

Is there anything specific like a setting or something required for this to work?

(I'm on windows7, and all the latest versions of phantomjs, nodejs & its modules)

[jonkemp]

What version of the plugin do you have? Can you post your test file?

I need more to go on to help you. Thanks!

[tborychowski]

Thanks for helping me!

Plugins version is: "gulp-qunit": "~0.1.3"
And the tests I'm running are here.
It's a standard qunit test (that currently works in the browser as well as with grunt)

[jonkemp]

My guess is that it's a problem with the relative path to the qunit.js file in your test. I'm using absolute paths in all my testing so that may be why I don't have the problem.

So making your path absolute may solve the problem. I will try to fix it so that relative paths work though. Thanks!

[tborychowski]

Thanks! You're right, changing paths of all js files to absolute urls solved this issue.
Cannot wait for the fix though :-)

Also: this seems almost impossibly fast! (9ms comparing to 340ms when using grunt and 90ms in a browser)!

[jonkemp]

I cannot reproduce this using local copies of qunit.js on Mac or Windows so I'm not sure what's going on. I can't fix it if I can't reproduce it. I would suggest trying this change and see if that fixes your relative paths issue.

gulp.task('test', function () { 
    return gulp.src('./tests/*.html').pipe(qunit()); 
});

[tborychowski]

Hi,
I've tried what you suggested and unfortunately it didn't help.
However, I've done some debugging and:

• it seems that the problem is caused (as you discovered earlier) by the relative paths instead of urls.
• phantomjs can create a webpage only from a url and not a local path like this: D:\\Projects\\index.html.

So the solution that worked for me was:

• add a file:/// prefix to the file path to make it a local url
• replace \\ with /

I've changed 2 lines in index.js to the below and now everything works:

var fpath = ~file.path.indexOf('http') ? file.path : 'file:///' + file.path.replace(/\\/g, '/'),
    childArgs = [ path.join(__dirname, 'runner.js'), fpath ];

I hope this helps and thanks for your time.

[dzearing]

+1 to tborychowski's comment. Fixing those 2 lines resolved this issue for me as well (experiencing the same thing.

(on windows, and my gulp file basically is the same as the above, referencing ./tests/*.html )

[jonkemp]

I'll reopen this to get more data, but it clearly works for some without this fix. I'm wondering if this is an edge case.

[jonkemp]

Please get the latest version 0.3.1. It has the fix for this. Thanks.