Document which patterns are excluded

[marvinhagemeister]

At work we have one project where some test files were placed inside a helpers folder. It took me way too long to figure out that ava ignores some folders by default (my first guess was directory permissions).

Although the testfile is explicitly given as an argument, ava exits with the following error:

$ ava helpers/mytest.js

Couldn't find any files to test

[jfmengels]

Under https://github.com/sindresorhus/ava#cli, you already have this documented.

Directories are recursed, with all *.js files being treated as test files.
Directories named fixtures, helpers and node_modules are always ignored.
So are files starting with _ which allows you to place helpers in the same directory as your test files.

[marvinhagemeister]

Thanks, don't know how I could've missed that!

[ulfryk]

So how to tests files that are in helpers directory ? Is there possibility to suppress this ignore ?

[grvcoelho]

As @ulfryk, pointed: is there a way to supress this ignore? I need to test files inside a helpers folder.

[novemberborn]

@grvcoelho not at this moment. We have open issues around this, e.g. #909.