Jasmine2: get current spec name

Question

In Jasmine 1.3, we had this option to the get current spec and suite names:

describe(\"name for describe\", function () {
    it(\"name for it\", function ()         


        

Answer 1

The reason this no longer works is because this is not the test. You can introduce a subtle change to your declarations however that fix it. Instead of just doing:

it("name for it", function() {});

Define the it as a variable:

var spec = it("name for it", function() {
   console.log(spec.description); // prints "name for it"
});

This requires no plug-ins and works with standard Jasmine.