Deprecated!

please checkout konacha-chai-matchers. It is far more complete! see https://github.com/matthijsgroen/konacha-chai-matchers

Chai-Backbone-Rails

• Adds Chai matchers to assert changes
• Adds Chai matchers for common backbone assertions
• Adds support for Factories

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'chai-backbone-rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install chai-backbone-rails

Dependencies

The provided libraries have dependencies to backbone, underscore and sinon

to install these dependencies, you can add the following to your Gemfile:

gem 'sinonjs-rails'
gem 'rails-backbone'

and in your spec_helper:

#= require sinon/sinon-1.5.0
#= require underscore
#= require backbone
#= require chai-backbone-rails

to run all specs of the libraries:

#= require chai-backbone-rails-spec

Using Changes Chai matchers

#= require chai-changes

See the Chai-changes plugin page

or the Node.js package page

Using Backbone Chai Matchers

#= require chai-backbone

See the Chai-backbone plugin page

or the Node.js package page

Using Factories

Factory support is added to quickly be able to build backbone models or other objects as you see fit:

#= require factories

See the Node.js package page

Running the tests

You can run the tests by including:

#= require chai-backbone_spec

or you can run the suites seperately:

#= require spec/chai-backbone_spec
#= require spec/chai-changes_spec
#= require spec/factory_spec

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Todo

• Add a rake task to update dependencies