Karma task: Wrong path to karma.conf.js

[melo0187]

When generating a new app and running grunt test you get:
ERROR [config]: File /path/to/projectroot/karma.conf.js does not exist!

I had a look at Gruntfile.js (lines 396 - 402)

    // Test settings
    karma: {
      unit: {
        configFile: 'karma.conf.js',
        singleRun: true
      }
    },

The file is actually not in the project's root, but in test/. Changing line 399 from
configFile: 'karma.conf.js' to configFile: 'test/karma.conf.js' solved the issue for me.

[JaKXz]

@melo0187 this would be great for your first PR!

[melo0187]

On it's way. Could become tomorrow morning though.

[JaKXz]

Just to note: my project [generated with an older version] has the karma.conf.js in the root folder. I definitely agree that it's better off in the test/ folder; I'm glad someone caught this regression, thanks @melo0187.

[melo0187]

@JaKXz I'm happy to hear that I helped =)
Can this regression be fixed with my PR or did I get it wrong? Still don't have much knowledge about how the generator works behind the scenes.

[royling]

@melo0187 I did not figure out how karma.conf.js is generated behind the scenes yet. However, I think it's necessary to change somewhere to generate it into test folder. Further more, it would be perfect if the basePath can be set as root (i.e. ..), then all files configured as files can be resolved from root directory still (this would make the solution in #251 better).

[JaKXz]

@royling karma.conf.js is generated by generator-karma. What I would suggest to fix this issue is simply to correct your Gruntfile manually, since there are a lot of structural changes improvements in the upcoming version of this generator, which you can try out like so.

[royling]

@JaKXz Thank you for pointing out the upcoming major structure change, looking forward to v2.0. For now, I already fixed the problem by manually changing the path in Gruntfile.js as well as correcting all file paths in generated karma.conf.js as below:

basePath: '..',
...
files: [
      'app/bower_components/angular/angular.js',
      'app/bower_components/angular-mocks/angular-mocks.js',
      'app/bower_components/angular-resource/angular-resource.js',
      'app/bower_components/angular-cookies/angular-cookies.js',
      'app/bower_components/angular-sanitize/angular-sanitize.js',
      'app/bower_components/angular-route/angular-route.js',
      'app/scripts/*.js',
      'app/scripts/**/*.js',
      'test/client/spec/**/*.js'
]