brewingcode
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10 years ago Errrr, this was changed 1.7.0, not 1.7.1. On reading the changelist for coffeescript, it's spelled out:
1.7.0 – JANUARY 28, 2014
When requiring CoffeeScript files in Node you must now explicitly register the compiler.
This can be done with require 'coffee-script/register' or CoffeeScript.register(). Also for
configuration such as Mocha's, use coffee-script/register.
Coffeescript 1.7.1 broke the mocha test. Found this solution at:
https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha/commit/2f42a833555f6e7b61c75e50114c15fc9ab00a16
The exact error looks like this:
set app environment: development
/private/tmp/express-coffee/test/app_test.coffee:1 xports, require, module, filename, dirname) { request = require 'supertest ^^^^^^^^^^^ SyntaxError: Unexpected string at Module._compile (module.js:439:25) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10) at Module.load (module.js:356:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12) at Module.require (module.js:364:17) at require (module.js:380:17) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/lib/mocha.js:172:27 at Array.forEach (native) at Mocha.loadFiles (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/lib/mocha.js:169:14) at Mocha.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/lib/mocha.js:356:31) at Object.
(/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha:359:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
at startup (node.js:119:16)
at node.js:902:3