Passing values from grunt to nodeunit tests

[creynders]

Is it possible? It would be really handy when testing grunt tasks.

[tkellen]

@creynders Could you post an example configuration for this and describe a little more clearly what you're hoping to do?

[creynders]

Maybe something like this:

nodeunit:{
    tests : {
        values : {
            foo : 'bar'  
        },
        options:{
            //options
        }
    }
}

In which case foo would be injected into all relevant tests.
I encountered it first when working on grunt_generate_configs where my npm test consisted out of multiple runs of the grunt task with different flags. However I needed to be able to access those flags in my tests as well to verify the correct functioning of the task. In the end I solved it by storing the flags in process.env and having the tests access them there. Certainly doable, but it would've been nicer to have been able to access them directly.

[ruyadorno]

+1 came here looking exactly for that

[AHaliq]

looking for a solution to this as well