sails js unit testing

Question

I have creted a sails js application. I want to add unit testing for my application. I am using following approach to do the unit testing. http://sailsjs-documentation.readthedocs.org/en/latest/concepts/Testing/

I am using grunt to test my application with mocha. Now I need a way to override some sails methods (find, update, etc. ) to use for my testing, since I do not want interact with the database when testing the code. Is there a way override sails js methods. As an example when I use User.find method in my testing, I want to have a specific result to test my other methods work perfectly. Any kind of help would be appriciated.

Answer 1

If you want to do testing wihout touching production database, you can use different table/ collection of your database. It's common approach in integration testing (not using a mock).

Here is the example, in file bootstrap.test.js

var Sails = require('sails'),
    sails;

before(function (done) {
  Sails.lift({
    connections: {
      mongodbServer: {
        database: 'database_test'
      }
    },
    models     : {
      migrate: 'drop'
    }
  }, function (err, server) {
    sails = server;
    if (err) return done(err);

    done();
  });
});

after(function (done) {
  // here you can clear fixtures, etc.
  sails.lower(done);
});

It's assumed that your connection use mongodbServer and db database_test. Configure it to meets your needs.