api-stubs don't work with testem

[tomclose]

I don't know whether this is a bug, a not-yet-supported feature, or whether I'm just doing something wrong...

I am trying to make use of the api-stubs provided in ember-app-kit for testing.

The stubs work correctly when I view the site in the browser, and when I run the tests by visting /tests in the browser.

However, when I run the tests from the command line with testem (by running grunt test:server) the tests fail as the stub data isn't returned.

You can find a simple example demonstrating the problem here: https://github.com/tomclose/minimal_eak_test_stub_problem, created from the most recent version of ember-app-kit. At the very least, this shows that the out-of-the-box eak defaults don't play well together.

[tomclose]

This answer describes a work-around: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23080436/api-stubs-failing-when-running-tests-with-testem-in-ember-app-kit/23132532#23132532. The example repository has been updated with the solution.

It is still surprising (to a beginner at least) that this doesn't just work out-of-the-box.

[dcalhoun]

@tomclose this was incredibly helpful for me. Thank you for sharing the work around. I also (as a beginner) expected the api-stubs to just "work" out-of-the-box for my Testem server.

[fsmanuel]

@tomclose as you can see there are open issues on that: #509, #374, #365
Unfortunately they didn't made it into master, yet.
As you stated in your SO comment there is discussion about how to test (fake server or use a real server). I'll try to look into the issues i mentioned and see if we can get a solution for EAK out of them.