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+(function () {
+  'use strict';
+  
+  const chai = require('chai');
+  const expect = chai.expect;
+  const sinon = require('sinon');
+  const sinonChai = require('sinon-chai');
+  const mockery = require('mockery');
+  chai.use(sinonChai);
+  const fakeredis = require('fakeredis');
+
+  const client = fakeredis.createClient('test-client');
+  const publisher = fakeredis.createClient('test-client');
+
+  const socketSpy = sinon.spy();
+  const mockSocket = {
+    get: () => {
+      return {
+        emit: socketSpy
+      }
+    }
+  };
+  const channelName = 'Site';
+
+  describe('The event system', () => {
+
+    before((done) => {
+
+      // Enable mockery to mock objects
+      mockery.enable({
+          warnOnReplace: false,
+          warnOnUnregistered: false
+      });
+
+      // Stub the createClient method to *always* return the client created above
+      sinon.stub(fakeredis, 'createClient', () => client);
+
+      // Override the redis module with our fakeredis instance
+      mockery.registerMock('redis', fakeredis);
+
+      // mock the socketIo client to have a spy
+      mockery.registerMock('./websocket.js', mockSocket);
+
+      require('../src/controllers/redis.js');
+      setTimeout(() => {
+        done();
+      }, 1000);
+    });
+
+    after(() => {
+      mockery.disable();
+      fakeredis.createClient.restore();
+    });
+
+    // run after each test
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      client.unsubscribe(channelName);
+      client.subscribe(channelName);
+      publisher.flushdb();
+    });
+
+    it('should send a websocket event when it receive a redis event that is not JSON', (done) => {
+      publisher.publish(channelName, 'I am sending a message.');
+      setTimeout(() => {
+        expect(socketSpy).to.have.been.called;
+        expect(socketSpy).to.have.been.calledWith('event', {
+          model: channelName,
+          msg: 'I am sending a message.'
+        });
+        done();
+      }, 500)
+    });
+
+    it('should send a websocket event when it receive a redis event that is JSON', (done) => {
+      publisher.publish(channelName, JSON.stringify({msg: 'Json Message'}));
+      setTimeout(() => {
+        expect(socketSpy).to.have.been.called;
+        expect(socketSpy).to.have.been.calledWith('event', {
+          model: channelName,
+          msg: {msg: 'Json Message'}
+        });
+        done();
+      }, 1000)
+    });
+  });
+})();
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