Hubot Unit Testing Not Receiving Response

Question

I'm trying to set up a simple unit test for my hubot code and I am not receiving responses back. I have simplified this down to:

test.coffee:

Helper = require('hubot-test-helper')
chai = require 'chai'
expect = chai.expect
helper = new Helper('../hubot-scripts/something.coffee')

describe 'PING', ->
    beforeEach ->
        @room = helper.createRoom()
    afterEach ->
        @room.destroy

    it 'should PONG', ->
        @room.user.say 'alice', '@hubot PING'
        expect(@room.messages).to.eql [
            ['alice', '@hubot PING'],
            ['hubot', 'PONG']
        ]

and something.coffee:

module.exports = (robot) ->
    robot.response /PING$/i, (msg) ->
        msg.send 'PONG'

When I run my tests, I get an assertion error of:

  AssertionError: expected [ [ 'alice', '@hubot PING' ] ] to deeply equal [ Array(2) ]
  + expected - actual

     [
       "alice"
       "@hubot PING"
     ]
  +  [
  +    "hubot"
  +    "PONG"
  +  ]
   ]

Meaning I am not getting a response back at all. I have tried changing @hubot to hubot (which shouldn't matter). I also verified that it is finding my something.coffee, as when I changed that path to an incorrect one I received an error about that.

I am following the example at bottom of https://hubot.github.com/docs/scripting/

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

For anyone who reached this thread, I posted a question when I experienced the same issue. In short, the issue was indentation - the line beginning with expect was being called before the @room.user.say was executed. Please see my link for more details.

Answer 2

I don't know why, but moving the @room.user.say into a before block made this work.