Event issue

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10932160/nothing-happens-when-i-trigger-event-with-backbone

by fguillen

HTML

<script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/underscore.js"></script>
<script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/backbone.js"></script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage/master/backbone.localStorage.js"></script>
<script src="http://sinonjs.org/releases/sinon-1.3.4.js"></script>
<html>
<head>
    <link href="http://blog.bandzarewicz.com/stylesheets/jasmine/jasmine.css" media="screen, projection" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

    <script src="https://raw.github.com/pivotal/jasmine/v1.1.0/lib/jasmine-core/jasmine.js"></script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/pivotal/jasmine/v1.1.0/lib/jasmine-core/jasmine-html.js"></script>


  <title>Jasmine Spec Runner</title>
</head>

<body>
    <a href="#" id="addQuestion">Add question</a>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript

var AppView = Backbone.View.extend({
    el: $("body"),

    events: {
        "click #addQuestion":  "addQuestionModel"
    },

    addQuestionModel: function() {
      alert( "I'm the event handler" );
    },

}); 

describe("Event", function() {
  beforeEach(function(){
    var appView = new AppView();
  });
      
  it("click on addQuestion", function() {
    $("#addQuestion").click();
  });
});






//
// Jasmine spec runner
//
(function() {
    var jasmineEnv = jasmine.getEnv();
    jasmineEnv.updateInterval = 1000;

    var trivialReporter = new jasmine.TrivialReporter();

    jasmineEnv.addReporter(trivialReporter);

    jasmineEnv.specFilter = function(spec) {
        return trivialReporter.specFilter(spec);
    };

    var currentWindowOnload = window.onload;

    window.onload = function() {
        if (currentWindowOnload) {
            currentWindowOnload();
        }
        execJasmine();
    };

    function execJasmine() {
        jasmineEnv.execute();
        trivialReporter.outerDiv.className += ' show-passed';
    }

})();