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    <p>Just trying out <a href="http://zombie.labnotes.org/" rel="nofollow">Zombie.js</a> for the first time today, and I'm having trouble visiting a page that populates DOM elements via javascript (specifically, a Backbone.js app). As a quick example, I visited the <a href="http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/todos/index.html" rel="nofollow">Backbone.js Todo app</a> and manually added a few items. Then I tried to grab the html within the <code>#todo-list</code> element using Zombie, and it came back empty. I've set <code>browser.runScripts = true</code>, so shouldn't everything be ready for Zombie to query?</p> <p>Looking at the source, the inner HTML is indeed empty. Is this even possible with Zombie.js? Or do I need to use something like Jasmine, as done <a href="http://tinnedfruit.com/2011/03/03/testing-backbone-apps-with-jasmine-sinon.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>?</p> <p>I've included example code below, along with the response I get.</p> <pre><code>var zombie = require('zombie'), vows = require('vows'), assert = require('assert'); var baseUrl = 'http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/todos/index.html'; vows.describe('Zombie Tests on a Backbone App').addBatch({ 'Navigate to Todo List' : { topic: function () { browser = new zombie.Browser({ debug: true }); browser.runScripts = true; browser.on('error',function (err){console.log(err.stack)}); browser.visit(baseUrl, this.callback); }, 'Can see todo list' : function (err,browser,status) { console.log('todo-list inner:' + browser.querySelector("#todo-list").innerHTML); // actual tests would go here } }, }).export(module); </code></pre> <p>And the output from running <code>vows</code>:</p> <pre><code>&gt; vows test/todo-test.js --spec ♢ Zombie Tests on a Backbone App Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/todos/index.html Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/todos/index.html =&gt; 200 Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/test/vendor/json2.js Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/test/vendor/jquery-1.5.js Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/test/vendor/underscore-1.1.6.js Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/backbone.js Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/backbone-localstorage.js Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/todos/todos.js Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/backbone-localstorage.js =&gt; 200 Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/test/vendor/json2.js =&gt; 200 Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/test/vendor/underscore-1.1.6.js =&gt; 200 Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/backbone.js =&gt; 200 Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/todos/todos.js =&gt; 200 Zombie: GET http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/test/vendor/jquery-1.5.js =&gt; 200 Zombie: Firing timeout 1, delay: 1 todolist inner: Navigate to Todo List ✓ Can see todo list ✓ OK » 1 honored (3.824s) </code></pre>
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