Testing Plugins does not currently work

[markgrovs]

I am working on my own plugin and was having trouble getting the tests to run. So I tried to run a few of the existing plugin tests and they all fail with a similar error.

It seems that the test framework is looking for docpad-plugin-less.tester.js within the out folder, but the pattern should be less.tester.js.

Marks-Mac-Pro:docpad-plugin-less mgroves$ cake test

docpad-plugin-less@2.1.3 test /Users/mgroves/Development/docpad-plugin-less
node ./out/less.test.js

FAILURE: 0/0 tests ran successfully; 0 failed, 0 incomplete, 1 errors

Error #1:
uncaughtException
Error: Cannot find module '/Users/mgroves/Development/docpad-plugin-less/out/docpad-plugin-less.tester.js'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:362:17)
at require (module.js:378:17)
at Object.testers.test.test (/Users/mgroves/Development/docpad/out/lib/testers.js:257:17)
at Object. (/Users/mgroves/Development/docpad-plugin-less/out/less.test.js:2:38)
at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.runMain (module.js:492:10)
at process.startup.processNextTick.process._tickCallback (node.js:244:9)

npm ERR! Test failed. See above for more details.
npm ERR! not ok code 0

/Users/mgroves/Development/docpad-plugin-less/Cakefile:126
throw err;
^
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[balupton]

Sweet thanks for reporting. Just fixed this in v6.30.4. The reason I never experienced this is that we've been cloning out the plugins for development like so:

git clone https://github.com/docpad/docpad-plugin-less.git less

So the directory name is the short name used for the file naming. Fixed this up so the detected plugin name is the directory name with docpad-plugin- removed. Let me know how it goes.

Dev note: We may actually want to extend this new way of detecting the plugin name to the plugin loader, so we don't have to define the name: 'blah' inside the plugin class.

[markgrovs]

Thanks! Plugin tests now work. Now I just need to finish my plugin 👍

[balupton]

I've also just updated the plugin write guide, noticed that it was a bit out of date (sorry about that!)