failure to run mocha tests with sails

Question

I'm following Sails docs and tried to run Mocha tests. I've edited my package.json in the way the docs specified, but for some reason when I try to run Mocha I always get EACESS, permission denied error.

At first I got:

Error: EACCES, permission denied '/Library/Application Support/Apple/ParentalControls/Users'

I didn't understand why would it has to do anything with running my tests, but Added the required permission for this folder.

then I got:

Error: EACCES, permission denied '/Library/Application Support/ApplePushService'

Again, didn't understand, so changed the permission on this folder, which didn't help also.

I'm not understanding why would Mocha need permissions on these files , or how to fix it.

I ran the command :

mocha test/bootstrap.test.js test/unit/**/*.test.js

And my project structure is exactly the same as in Sails tutorials.

I'm using [email protected]. My co-worker cloned the repo, and tried to run the tests on his machine, but failed with exactly the same errors.

I tried downgrading to [email protected] Which didn't help also.

The full error trace:

events.js:85
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
            ^
Error: EACCES, permission denied '/Library/Application Support/ApplePushService'
    at Error (native)
    at Object.fs.readdirSync (fs.js:761:18)
    at Glob._readdir (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:609:20)
    at Glob._process (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:393:15)
    at Glob.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:427:14)
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Glob.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:426:9)
    at Glob._afterReaddir (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:635:15)
    at Glob._readdir (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:613:17)
    at Glob._process (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:393:15)
    at Glob.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:427:14)
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Glob.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:426:9)
    at Glob._afterReaddir (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:635:15)
    at Glob._readdir (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:613:17)
    at Glob._process (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:393:15)
    at Glob.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:427:14)
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Glob.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:426:9)
    at Glob._afterReaddir (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:635:15)
    at Glob._readdir (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:613:17)
    at Glob._process (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:393:15)
    at Glob.iterator (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:171:10)
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at new Glob (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:169:22)
    at glob (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:57:11)
    at Function.globSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/node_modules/glob/glob.js:76:10)
    at Object.lookupFiles (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/lib/utils.js:590:20)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha:320:30
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha:319:6)
    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)
    at startup (node.js:129:16)
    at node.js:814:3
npm ERR! Test failed.  See above for more details.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if it can help but I had a similar problem : as soon as i typed mocha in my shell, it were failing with a EACCES on a folder outside of my app. :

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha:372
    throw err;
    ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, scandir '/backup/mint17.3/etc/cups/ssl'

I found the bug came from file ./test/mocha.opt were i wrote a comment from sails.js docs :

/**
* @Doc :: This file should contain mocha configuration as described here:     https://mochajs.org/#mochaopts
*     
*    Note: The default test-case timeout in Mocha is 2 seconds. Increase
*      the timeout value in mocha.opts to make sure the sails lifting completes
*      before any of the test-cases can be started.
*/

--timeout 5s

Answer 2

Take a look at my sails.js test example. I think it may help you.

As in the code shown below, refer to test/bootstrap.js.

var Sails = require('sails');
var _ = require('lodash')
global.DOMAIN = 'http://localhost';
global.PORT = 1420;
global.HOST = DOMAIN + ':' + PORT;
before(function(callback) {
  this.timeout(7000);

  var configs = {
    log: {
      level: 'info'
    },
    connections: {
      memory: {
        // lets use memory tests ...
        adapter   : 'sails-memory'
      }
    },
    models: {
      connection: 'memory'
    },
    port: PORT,
    environment: 'test',

    // @TODO needs suport to csrf token
    csrf: false,

    // we dont need this configs in API test
    hooks: {
      grunt: false,
      socket: false,
      pubsub: false
    }
  };

  Sails.load(configs, function(err, sails) {
    if (err) {
      console.error(err);
      return callback(err);
    }

    console.log('rodo!')
    // here you can load fixtures, etc.
    callback(err, sails);
  });
});

after(function(done) {
  // here you can clear fixtures, etc.
  sails.lower(done);
});