Start using Jasmine. Write better JavaScript. Profit.

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Argues that JavaScript needs the same testing craftsmanship as Ruby and shows concrete tooling and results: adds Jasmine to Rails via a jasmine-rails gem, uses jasmine-jquery and headless WebKit runners, demonstrates turning anonymous event handlers into named one-line functions that are easy to spec, wires CoffeeScript into the asset pipeline for test code, and ships a TryJasmine web app — all working end-to-end so specs actually run in CI and browsers.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:56consequences
3. 5:23avoiding front-end work
4. 8:07codes!
5. 12:28how might we spec event binding?
6. 14:57Taking the next step

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