Jasmine: how to run series of tests after an event has triggered

Question

I'm trying to run tests on my npm module. The code below will work if I comment out either of the 2 it blocks, but times out if I leave them both in as below. How can wait for "ready" before running my tests (I'd like to add more but they too need to await "ready")?

describe("GA analytics", function() {

    var report = new Report(private_key, SERVICE_EMAIL, 1);

    it("should connect and emit <ready>", function(done) {
        report.on('ready', function() {
            console.log("test.js: Token: ", report.token);
            expect(report.token).toBeDefined();
            done();
        });
    });

    it("should get data correctly", function(done) {
        report.on('ready', function() {
            report.get(query, function(err, data) {
                if (err) throw err
                expect(data.rows).toEqual([ [ '5140' ] ]);
                done();
            });
        });
    });
});

Answer 1

I guess it is happening because you create a new instance of the Report only once per test file, therefore the ready event only fires once and only the first it block in the test will catch it and process. The rest of the it blocks won't receive any more ready events, so they silently wait for it until Jasmine times out. The solution will be to create a new Report instance before each it block, which can be easily done with the help of Jasmine beforeEach:

describe("GA analytics", function() {

    var report;

    beforeEach(function () {
        report = new Report();
    });

    // ....
});

See the working example here on Plunker (open a "script.js" file)