Query Objects: Testing

queryObjects.test.js

var expect = require('chai').expect;
var CreateStudentQuery = require('./createStudentQuery');

describe('CreateStudentQuery', function(){

  before(function(done){
    this.student = {
      first_name: 'John',
      last_name: 'Smith',
      gender: 'M'
    }

    var callback = _.bind(function(err, result) {
      this.err = err
      this.result = result
      done()
    }, this)

    // set the collection being affected as a test table
    // or set the DATABASE_URL to a test database instead.
    CreateStudentQuery.COLLECTION_NAME = 'students_test'

    new CreateStudentQuery(this.student).run(callback)
  });

  // perform checks to make sure that the returned object is 
  // has the same values as the original object but also
  // has new database values (such as _id in Mongo)
  it('returns a new student database object', function(){
    expect(this.result.first_name).to.equal(this.student.first_name)
    expect(this.results._id).to.not.be.undefined
  });

});