Please pull in changes to enable JsTestDriverIntegration

[paulitex]

Hi, as discussed on the mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/sproutcore/browse_thread/thread/b7b09ee4dab036d8 these changes add a feature to abbot to support JsTestDriver. I documented the tool here: http://paulitex.com/2011/02/integrating-jstestdriver-with-sproutcore/.

Since some people (in particular Martin Hacker on the ML) asked for me to 'make this easily availeable for other sproutcore users' I thought I'd send the request now.

Comments are very welcome,

Paul

[tomdale]

I'm okay with these kind of things because a) we do not have a plugin architecture, and b) they do not add any overhead to the payload delivered to the browser.

However, I'm uncomfortable with this adding yet another dependency, as we already have too many. Can you detect if nokogiri is installed and throw an error if it is not? There's no point in burdening all users with an extra dependency if they won't be using JsTestDriver.

Thanks!

[wagenet]

@paulitex are you able to make these changes?

[paulitex]

Yes I am - sorry about that I got really busy and kinda forgot about this. Thanks for the poke. :) I'll look into it asap

[workmanw]

Bump. Paulitex are you still working on this. We're using JSTD and we'd like to see it make it into Abbot so we don't have to patch abbot on our side.

[paulitex]

to be honest, I'd love to say yes but as my 3 months 'asap' may reveal, this is near the bottom of a very big (and growing) stack of todos :(. If you want to pull my fork, incorporate Tom's suggestion, and open a new pull request by all means and we'll close this one. sorry about that.

[workmanw]

@paulitex No biggie, I know how that goes. I did create a branch, merged your changes in, made the modifications Tom requested and submitted a pull request. Thanks for putting in the initial effort to make js-test-driver work :)

~Wesley

[paulitex]

Awesome :)