# Ember-cli and testem

**URL:** <https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/ember-cli-and-testem/6196>\
**Category:** Ember CLI\
**Created:** [September 4, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/ember-cli-and-testem/6196 "2014-09-04T00:11:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![paulrule1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/paulrule1/32/9496_2.png) [@paulrule1](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/paulrule1)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/ember-cli-and-testem/6196/1 "2014-09-04T00:11:17Z")

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**Update: I was told about the ‘ember generate acceptance-test test1’ command, and this along with ‘ember test --server’ has got me going. Thanks.**

Hi,

I’m new to Ember, and I’d like to get a simple project up and running, and have some integration tests running in chrome.

I bought the book “Developing an Ember.js Edge” where they create the application ember-trackr but as all things in the JS world move fast, details seem to have changed.

If I:

```
git clone https://github.com/developing-an-emberjs-edge/ember-trackr
cd ember-trackr
testem

```

I get an error:

```
   Error running before_tests hook                                         
  ┃                                                                        
  ┃before_tests hook: "ember build -c"                                     
  ┃version: 0.0.41                                                         
  ┃You have to be inside an ember-cli project in order to use the build command.  

```

I’m not sure but I think the steps in [http://emberjs.com/guides/testing/integration/](http://emberjs.com/guides/testing/integration/) are already taken care of when using

```
ember new <appname>

```

So, if I create a new app and run testem:

```
ember new testem-test
cd testem-test
testem

```

I see the ‘waiting for runners’ message in the console and chrome launces.

Now if I try to add a trivial test (say, to check the page content for some text - copied from [The Ember CLI - Introduction - Ember CLI Guides](http://www.ember-cli.com/#testing)) as tests/test1.js:

```
 import Ember from "ember";
 import { test } from 'ember-qunit';
 import startApp from 'helpers/start-app';
 var App;
  
 module('An Integration test', {
   setup: function() {
     App = startApp();
   },
   teardown: function() {
     Ember.run(App, App.destroy);
   }
 });
 
 test("Page contents", function() {
   expect(2);
   visit('/foos').then(function() {
     equal(find('.foos-list').length, 1, "Page contains list of models");
     equal(find('.foos-list .foo-item').length, 5, "List contains expected number of models");
   });
 });

```

If I run ‘testem’, I just get the waiting for runners message. If I run ‘ember test’ I get:

```
~/IdeaProjects/spike/testem-test (master) $ ember test
version: 0.0.41
Build failed.
ENOENT, no such file or directory '/Users/paul/IdeaProjects/spike/testem-test/tmp/tree_merger-tmp_dest_dir-2QJNmsEl.tmp/helpers/start-app.js'
File: helpers/start-app.js

```

Does anyone have any clues as to what I’m missing?

Also, if it hasn’t been done already, it would be nice to keep the ember-trackr sample app up to date with ember-cli so it runs out of the box - I’d be happy to contribute if I can figure out what its missing…

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**Author:** ![knownSubset](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/knownsubset/32/9316_2.png) [@knownSubset](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/knownSubset)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/ember-cli-and-testem/6196/2 "2014-09-05T12:05:42Z")

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It doesn’t look like it ember-trackr was developed using ember-cli. You should try the development tool-chain that they mention of in the [README.md](https://github.com/developing-an-emberjs-edge/ember-trackr/blob/master/README.md) which is [ember-tools](https://github.com/rpflorence/ember-tools) not ember-cli.