Question

When trying to use Mocha (version 1.3.2) in the browser, along the lines of the given example, I get the following exception when trying to specify acceptable globals in the expected way (i.e. with something like mocha.globals(['amplify', '_'])):

Uncaught TypeError: Object function Mocha(options) {
  options = options || {};
  this.files = [];
  this.options = options;
  this.grep(options.grep);
  this.suite = new exports.Suite('', new exports.Context);
  this.ui(options.ui);
  this.reporter(options.reporter);
  if (options.timeout) this.suite.timeout(options.timeout);
} has no method 'globals' 

This is exhibited in Chrome 21.0.1180.

One may reproduce this by going to the given example link, and in the browser console run mocha.globals(['123']).

I would expect mocha.globals to work as the linked example suggests, or there to be some documentation about an alternative, but I have found none.

Answer 1

This is issue #42 on visionmedia/mocha GitHub. The solution is, in Coffeescript:

mocha.setup
  ui: 'bdd'
  globals: [ 'jade' ]