This was an idea given by @mamodom today. I just created the issue so he can expand on it

The method is hard to read, need to find a way to sinthetize

Frameworks such as nUnit have a SetupFixture attribtue that defines a "previous method" that is called before each test.

This is useful for repetitive code. In our case we almost always have to do something like this:

var game = new parcheesi.ParcheesiGame();

Wouldn't it be nice to declare it just once?

the file /test/game_definition.js on line 45 has the following:

it('should have a heaven (last spot a player can play to)', function() {
    assert.fail();
});

I have no idea what I'm doing 🐶 💻 ...

How can we emit errors? I'm trying to create a method that will move pawns around the board. Something like this:

//this would move pawn no. 0 or player mo. 0, 4 spaces
game.movePawn(0,0,4);

But this would be subject to many preconditions before executing: it's the user's turn, the pawn is not on the home area, the pawn has available spaces to move, an enemy barricade isn't blocking the way, etc.

What's the best way to emit the errors?

Checkout the TODO on parcheesi.js, line 226 about using an event emitter for the movement of the pawns instead of doing it manually?

Just a posibility

We should find a way to draw the board on the console. As easily as possible

Right now the JSON that holds the game is the following:

{
    spaces: []
    stairs: [
        { color: 'red', spaces: [,,,,,,,,] },
        { color: 'yellow', spaces: [,,,,,,,,] },
        { color: 'green', spaces: [,,,,,,,,] },
        { color: 'blue', spaces: [,,,,,,,,] },
    ]
}

I'm writing up the function that moves the pawn from one space to the other. The first array called spaces has 68 positions that compose the whole board, while the inner arrays inside each stair object has 8 spaces for the stair.

Is this the best configuration possible?

=D

More info about class instantiation on John Resig's blog:
http://ejohn.org/blog/simple-class-instantiation/

It using sublime, there's already a package that helps with javascript patterns (check out the one that it has con constructor):
https://github.com/caiogondim/js-patterns-sublime-snippets