How to make travis execute Angular tests on Chrome ("Please set env variable CHROME_BIN")

angularjs, karma-runner, travis-ci, yeoman

Solution

I'm afraid to say that you can only run Firefox (because it's already installed in the VM) and PhantomJS (because it's portable and headless).

Add the following into your `.travis.yml` file to startup Firefox:

before_install:
  - "export DISPLAY=:99.0"
  - "sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start"

Then you'll just have to enable Firefox as a Karma browser in your configs.

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Problem

I'm working on a sample Angular project generated by yeoman. I am able to run karma tests locally (I set system variable `CHROME_BIN` to point to chromium binary, but this could have been done in more elegant way. Just a quick work-around.) However, when attempting to produce a successful build with travis, I get following error: ``` ERROR [launcher]: Cannot start Chrome Can not find the binary google-chrome Please set env variable CHROME_BIN ``` I've followed the steps described here (basically using `generator-travis-ci`) Then tried to fix it with this - got another error: `/home/travis/build.sh: line 142: ./.travis/scripts/install_chrome.sh: Permission denied` It's a standard angular app created with Yeoman - things should work out of the box, whereas reality is different ... Has anybody successfully configured it? Software versions I've been using: ``` user@machine:~/somewhere $ yo -v; grunt --version; bower -v 1.0.4 grunt-cli v0.1.9 grunt v0.4.1 1.2.6 ``` my Travis job: https://travis-ci.org/vucalur/editor-yeoman-test

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