Need help with how to start using YUI YETI in Cygwin for JS testing

Question

I'm new to a lot of things that YETI requires to run, and I've made it through most of the steps to get it to work. I have installed cygwin so I can run node.js and npm (I used these instructions). Once done, I ran npm install yeti, and yeti installed. Now I can type things like this:

This is where I'm having problems. I can't figure out how to get yeti to run the tests in demo.html. I can open up my browser to file:///C:/test/demo.html and I can see the tests run (it's a YUI Test) so I know that the problem is not demo.html being broken. Also, when I try to run yeti as a server (yeti --server), It sits there after the line "to run and report the results" and doesn't let me do anything unless I exit with ctrl-c, although I can go to localhost:8000 and see this:

If I try opening up a new cygwin console and doing this:

It gives me a bunch of errors that I don't understand.

Help!

Answer 1

How I did it on ubuntu:

• First install node dependencies. Only install dependencies using apt-get

  • You need at least:
    • sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev python2.6
  • Also this link could be helpfull => http://howtonode.org/how-to-install-nodejs (see ubuntu instructions).

• Next install node/npm the correct way on ubuntu.

  echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
  . ~/.bashrc
  mkdir ~/local
  mkdir ~/node-latest-install
  cd ~/node-latest-install
  curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
  ./configure --prefix=~/local
  make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
  

close terminal and open it again

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

• After that install yeti issuing: $ npm install yeti@stable

• Run yeti issuing from terminal:

  alfred@alfred-laptop:~/node/stackoverflow/4833633$ yeti Yeti will only serve files inside /home/alfred/node/stackoverflow/4833633 Visit http://localhost:8000, then run: yeti to run and report the results.

• start the browsers you like. Point the browsers to => http://localhost:8000

• inside the folder you started yeti write your tests.

  alfred@alfred-laptop:~/node/stackoverflow/4833633$ ls -al
  total 16
  drwxr-xr-x 2 alfred alfred 4096 2011-01-29 01:47 .
  drwxr-xr-x 6 alfred alfred 4096 2011-01-29 01:27 ..
  -rw-r--r-- 1 alfred alfred 6140 2011-01-29 01:47 simple.html

  See gist for a really simple example. I just copied to example from http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/examples/test/test-simple-example_clean.html but removed the <!--MyBlogLog instrumentation--> crap. I also told it not to render console by commenting line 196 => //r.render('#testLogger');(That last is not even necessary, but I think tests will run faster that way because it does need to render the console).

• Finally I just ran:

alfred@alfred-laptop:~/node/stackoverflow/4833633$ yeti simple.html
Waiting for results. When you're done, hit Ctrl-C to exit.
✔ Example Suite on Chrome (8.0.552.237) / Linux
   6 passed, 0 failed

✔ Example Suite on Firefox (3.6.13) / Linux
   6 passed, 0 failed

Success :)

Some extra information about my distro

alfred@alfred-laptop:~/node/stackoverflow/4833633$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.10 \n \l

alfred@alfred-laptop:~/node/stackoverflow/4833633$ python --version
Python 2.6.6

alfred@alfred-laptop:~/node/stackoverflow/4833633$ node -v
v0.2.6

alfred@alfred-laptop:~/node/stackoverflow/4833633$ npm -v
0.2.15

alfred@alfred-laptop:~/node/stackoverflow/4833633$ npm ls installed | grep yeti
npm info it worked if it ends with ok
npm info using npm@0.2.15
npm info using node@v0.2.6
yeti@0.1.2               The YUI Easy Testing Interface    =reid active installed remote stable YUI web app YUITest TDD BDD yui3 test
npm ok