node.js - Debugging jasmine-node tests with node-inspector

Question

Does anyone have any idea if this is possible? Most of the sample for node-inspector seemed geared toward debugging an invoked webpage. I'd like to be able to debug jasmine-node tests though.

Answer 1

In short, just debug jasmine-node:

node --debug-brk node_modules/jasmine-node/lib/jasmine-node/cli.js spec/my_spec.js

If you look at the source of the jasmine-node script, it just invokes cli.js, and I found I could debug that script just fine.

I wanted to use node-inspector to debug a CoffeeScript test. Just adding the --coffee switch worked nicely, e.g.

node --debug-brk node_modules/jasmine-node/lib/jasmine-node/cli.js --coffee spec/my_spec.coffee