gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$2" = "sqlite" ]
then
    npm config set restbase:test_backend sqlite
else
    npm config set restbase:test_backend cassandra
fi

if [ "$1" = "test" ]
then
    mocha
fi

if [ "$1" = "coverage" ]
then
    istanbul cover _mocha -- -R spec
fi

So the defs would be:

"test": "script.sh test",
"coverage": "script coverage"

and we would run that as:

$ npm test
$ npm test -- sqlite
$ npm run coverage

?

I'm also wondering whether we should try to automatically detect if cassandra is up and if not fall back on sqlite. What do you think?