beginning of trivial node reporter, based on jasmine-node. jshint rules exclude bad escapements WRT ansi colors, beacuse that's ok.

spec/suites/TrivialNodeReporterSpec.js

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+describe("TrivialNodeReporter", function() {
+  
+
+  var green = function(str) {
+    return '\033[32m' + str + '\033[0m';   //keep these literal.  otherwise the test loses value as a test.
+  };
+  
+  var red = function(str) {
+    return '\033[31m' + str + '\033[0m';
+  };
+  
+  var newline = "\n";
+  
+  beforeEach(function() {
+    this.fakeSys = (function(){
+      var output = "";
+      return {
+        puts:function(str) {output += str + "\n";},
+        print:function(str) {output += str;},
+        getOutput:function(){return output;}
+      };
+    })();
+    
+    this.env = new jasmine.Env();
+    this.env.updateInterval = 0;
+
+    this.reporter = new jasmine.TrivialNodeReporter(this.fakeSys);
+  });
+  
+  //     reportSpecResults: function(spec) {
+  //       var result = spec.results();
+  //       var msg = '';
+  //       if (result.passed())
+  //       {
+  //         msg = (colors) ? (ansi.green + '.' + ansi.none) : '.';
+  // //      } else if (result.skipped) {  TODO: Research why "result.skipped" returns false when "xit" is called on a spec?
+  // //        msg = (colors) ? (ansi.yellow + '*' + ansi.none) : '*';
+  //       } else {
+  //         msg = (colors) ? (ansi.red + 'F' + ansi.none) : 'F';
+  //       }
+  //       sys.print(msg);
+  //       if (columnCounter++ < 50) return;
+  //       columnCounter = 0;
+  //       sys.print('\n');
+  //     },
+
+
+
+  describe('A Test Run', function(){
+    
+    describe('A spec runs', function(){
+    
+      it("prints a green dot if the spec passes", function(){
+        var passingSpec = {
+          results: function(){
+            return {passed:function(){return true;}};
+          }
+        };
+        this.reporter.reportSpecResults(passingSpec);
+
+        expect(this.fakeSys.getOutput()).toEqual(
+          green(".")
+        );
+      });
+    
+    });
+
+  });
+  
+});