Jasmine 2.0: refactoring out 1.3's runs() and waitsFor()

Question

The recently released Jasmine 2.0 removes the waits functions and the runs() from the Async Jasmine 1.3.

I have old 1.3 tests I\'d like to transition to th

Answer 1

It is possible to use a setTimeout in your it() block.

it("is asynchronous", function(done) {
  var isItDone = false;
  $.ajax('/some/url').success(function() { isItDone = true; });

  setTimeout(function(){
    expect(isItDone).toBeTrue();
    done(); // call this to finish off the it block
  }, 500);

});

However, I found that that slowed down my test suite dramatically so I created my own extension which recreates the polling functionality that waitsFor provided.

https://gist.github.com/abreckner/110e28897d42126a3bb9