how to mock a location.path in angular unit tests

Question

http://blog.artlogic.com/2013/05/06/angularjs-best-practices-ive-been-doing-it-wrong-part-2-of-3/

I am testing a routing directive with location.path refs to templat

Answer 1

I created a fiddle which demonstrates mocking $location.

  app.controller('testcont', function($scope, $location) {
      $scope.path = $location.path();
  });
  ...
  beforeEach(inject(function($controller, $rootScope, $location){    
     scope = $rootScope.$new();
     spyOn($location, 'path').andReturn('Fake location');
     $controller('testcont', {$scope:scope});
  }));
  ...
  it('should spy on $location', function($location){
     expect(scope.path).toBe('Fake location');
  });

However templates can be loaded by prepopulating Angular's $templateCache with the directive. Karma uses the ng-html2js-preprocessor. Could that help your problem?