No moduleForHelper

[tomdale]

We should add helpers for testing bound Handlebars helpers.

[rwjblue]

Not to future self, we need to add a moduleForHelper that allows specifying a template (or template name).

Still need to flesh out what that API should look like (do we pass the template to this.subject() or what?)...

[ryanflorence]

my plan was to just be able to provide a snippet of handlebars as the "unit under test" that created a container view and rendered it, this way, you write your tests the same way you write your code. You don't typically call a handlebars helper imperatively, but rather in your templates.

I was going to refactor moduleForComponent, moduleForView, and moduleForSnippet??? to all use the same code to set up and tear down the container. I had this in my original stuff before the deep qunit integration was proposed and implemented (it was lovely).

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Robert Jackson notifications@github.com wrote:

Not to future self, we need to add a moduleForHelper that allows specifying a template (or template name).

Still need to flesh out what that API should look like (do we pass the template to this.subject() or what?)...

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/rjackson/ember-qunit/issues/76#issuecomment-49083355.

[rwjblue]

I wrote this demo of how to test the output of a provided template a while back (for plain QUnit):

http://jsbin.com/ECoTIP/1/edit

[manuelmitasch]

Related #5

[jasonmit]

Currently I use ember-legacy-views for testing the helpers in ember-intl, but that's no longer possible as of ember-beta/ember-canary for 2.6.x.

Is there a recommended path forward?

/cc @rwjblue

[rwjblue]

@jasonmit - Support for the legacy addons is no longer present in 2.6.0-beta.1 or above. If someone still needs those addons, they will need to continue using 2.4 LTS (which is supported until 2.8 turns into the next LTS). tldr; no, there is nothing you can do but drop support. Also, I am confused why that question is related to this request for a moduleForHelper...

[rwjblue]

This issue is being addressed by https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/119.

[jasonmit]

Also, I am confused why that question is related to this request for a moduleForHelper...

I took a similar approach that you mention https://github.com/rwjblue/ember-qunit/issues/76#issuecomment-49085412 here to test the output of my helpers.

[rwjblue]

@jasonmit - With the current tooling, using moduleForComponent is massively simpler. See https://github.com/aptible/dashboard.aptible.com/blob/master/tests/integration/helpers/eq-test.js for an example.

[jasonmit]

Ah, it worked perfectly - thanks!