mocha test for sails hook that depends on a sails app - sails.js

Question

I'm trying to write a mocha test for a sails installable hook (myhook) that is dependent on a particular sails app (myapp). I'd like the bootstrap.test.js to lift myapp with myhook. Thus, I have myapp a devDependency in myhook project.
My bootstrap.test.js has something like this:
var myapp = require('myapp');
// put it in global (special case) for npm test only
global.thehook = require('../api/hooks/myhook/index');
before(function(done) {
this.timeout(10000);
console.log("Bootstrap lifting sails...");
myapp.lift({
hooks: {
"myhook": global.thehook,
"grunt": false
},
log: {level: "error"},
}, function(err) {
if (err) return done(err);
// here you can load fixtures, etc.
done(err, sails);
});
});
after(function(done) {
myapp.lower(done);
});
Thinking .lift() and .lower would apply to the sails app. But, that doesn't seem to be the case.
How do I make this work?

Answer 1

You will need to use the sails dependency in place of myapp.
var sails = require('sails');
before(function(done) {
sails.lift({
// test configuration
}, function (error) {
// ...
done();
});
});
after(function(done) {
sails.lower(function (error) {
//...
done();
});
})
The sails dependency starts in the root of the project directory and will lift the application, so there's no need to require app.js for lifting the app.