Which version of Node to use with testing Meteor application?

[rjsmith]

Hi,

I'd like to try out chimp with my Meteor application. I have Node 0.10.40 installed on my dev machine, as that is the version that my production app hosted on modulus.io uses. I also understand that Meteor is not supported on anything more recent that 0.10.40.

When I tried to install chimp using npm install -g chimp, the install proceded until it tried to run the selenium standalone script, at which point I get the following error:

[chimp] Watching features with tagged with @dev,@watch,@focus
[chimp] Running...
selenium-standalone installation [====================] 100% 0.0s
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/chimp/node_modules/selenium-standalone/lib/install.js:248
  fs.access(where, fs.R_OK | fs.X_OK, function(err) {
     ^
TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'access'
    at chmodChromeDr (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/chimp/node_modules/selenium-standalone/lib/install.js:248:6)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/chimp/node_modules/selenium-standalone/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:699:13
    at iterate (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/chimp/node_modules/selenium-standalone/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:256:13)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/chimp/node_modules/selenium-standalone/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:268:29
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/chimp/node_modules/selenium-standalone/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:40:16
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/chimp/node_modules/selenium-standalone/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:705:17
    at Object._onImmediate (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/chimp/node_modules/selenium-standalone/lib/install.js:223:5)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:363:15)

Doing a bit of research, I think the problem is that Node 0.10.40 does not have the fs.access method.

Should I upgrade my dev machine to the latest and greatest Node version to be able to install and run chimp?

[samhatoum]

Hey Richard

You may be able to use Phantom, or if you start your own selenium server then you can pass Chimp the host.

I would recommend a higher Node version for Chimp for sure, and I wish Meteor would use an up-to-date Node. We're on v5.2.0 now!

[rjsmith]

OK, thanks Sam for the clarification (maybe you add a gotcha to the Chimp
docs somewhere for Meteor folk...). Interested why no one else seems to
have hit this issue (from looking through the chimp issues list anyhow).

On 19 December 2015 at 22:21, Sam Hatoum notifications@github.com wrote:

Hey Richard

You may be able to use Phantom, or if you start your own selenium server
then you can pass Chimp the host.

I would recommend a higher Node version for Chimp for sure, and I wish
Meteor would use an up-to-date Node. We're on v5.2.0 now!

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[rjsmith]

Hi, reporting back. running chimp with phantomjs seems to work OK

$ chimp --ddp=http://localhost:3000 --browser=phantomjs --path=tests/chimp
[chimp] Running...

Feature: Home page unauthenticated user

  As an unauthenticated user
  I want to see the home page
  So I can see the Sign In link

  @watch
  Scenario: View the home page          # tests/chimp/features/Home page.feature:11
    Given a user is logged out          # tests/chimp/features/Home page.feature:8
    Given I am an unauthenticated user  # tests/chimp/features/Home page.feature:12
    When I navigate to the application  # tests/chimp/features/Home page.feature:13
    Then I am able to see the home page # tests/chimp/features/Home page.feature:14
    And I can see a Sign In link        # tests/chimp/features/Home page.feature:15


1 scenario (1 passed)
5 steps (5 passed)

But if I select chrome or firefox, I get the same node error as above (I am running node 0.10.40). This is not good news for any Meteor folk hoping to switch to use chimp from Velocity Cucumber .... hoping this gets noticed by MDG soon:

meteor/meteor#5124

[samhatoum]

Thanks for reporting back!

[samhatoum]

Meteor has its own version of node when it's run, so you can still install 0.5.2 and Meteor will use 0.10.40

[samhatoum]

That's how it works locally

[samhatoum]

@rjsmith did installing 0.5.2 work for you?

[rjsmith]

Hi @samhatoum Happy New Year!

Yes - I updated node locally to v5.2.0, I can now run chimp against chrome browser (& phantomjs). And my sanjo:jasmine server integration tests are also all passing, so do not seem to be affected in any way

[shiftux]

Hello,
Having the same issue. I'm on node v0.10.36, which is what is in the EPEL CentOS 6.7 Repo.
I don't really understand what you mean by having 2 node versions installed... How would I go about doing that?
thanks in advance!

[samhatoum]

Meteor uses its own node, so you just need to install the latest node separately to Meteor and you should be good to go

[shiftux]

cool, that seems to be working.
for everyone who isn't as well versed as @samhatoum and @rjsmith, here is what I did:
go to where meteor has its version of node installed (adapt user, release and OS):

/home/XXXXX/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/1.1.10/mt-os.linux.x86_64/dev_bundle/bin

and excecute the following from there (be sure to use the node executables there, with ./node, otherwise the executable from PATH will be used)

./npm cache clean -f
./npm install -g n
sudo ./n stable

this will first install the node module n, which helps to update node and then update node to the latest stable version.
this works for me, chimp runs without the error.
hope this what should have been done and hope it helps

[ghost]

I've submitted a pull request to make selenium-standalone compatible again with 0.10.x: webdriverio/selenium-standalone#161

[ghost]

selenium-standalone 4.9.1 is node.js 0.10 compatible. I think Chimp should work with 0.10 again. A test is required ;-)

[ghost]

It works with 0.10.40.