From 2961ebc7fa2f5f4b38200c020dcf0aaff160e337 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trek Glowacki <trek@popularpays.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:07:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Warn, don't raise, a double started Pretender

---
 .jshintrc             |  3 +++
 pretender.js          |  5 +++--
 test/creation_test.js | 20 --------------------
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.jshintrc b/.jshintrc
index b5e7b70..e678534 100644
--- a/.jshintrc
+++ b/.jshintrc
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
     "define",
     "process"
   ],
+  "globals": {
+    "console":false
+  },
   "expr": true,
   "proto": true,
   "strict": true,
diff --git a/pretender.js b/pretender.js
index 876ae58..b40e3ff 100644
--- a/pretender.js
+++ b/pretender.js
@@ -261,8 +261,9 @@ function interceptor(pretender, nativeRequest) {
   FakeRequest.prototype = proto;
 
   if (nativeRequest.prototype._passthroughCheck) {
-    throw new Error('You created a second Pretender instance while there was already one running. ' +
-          'Running two Pretender servers at once will lead to unexpected results!' +
+    console.warn('You created a second Pretender instance while there was already one running. ' +
+          'Running two Pretender servers at once will lead to unexpected results and will ' +
+          'be removed entirely in a future major version.' +
           'Please call .shutdown() on your instances when you no longer need them to respond.');
   }
   return FakeRequest;
diff --git a/test/creation_test.js b/test/creation_test.js
index 095c9f4..26e98e9 100644
--- a/test/creation_test.js
+++ b/test/creation_test.js
@@ -2,26 +2,6 @@ var pretender;
 var describe = QUnit.module;
 var it = QUnit.test;
 
-describe('pretender creation - without shutdown', function(config) {
-  var secondPretender;
-
-  config.beforeEach(function() {
-    pretender = new Pretender();
-  });
-
-  config.afterEach(function() {
-    pretender.shutdown();
-  });
-
-  test('an error is thrown when you start a new pretender while another one is running', function(assert) {
-    var message = 'You created a second Pretender instance while there ' +
-                  'already one running. Running two Pretender servers at once will lead to unexpected results!';
-    assert.throws(function() {
-      new Pretender();
-    }, message);
-  });
-});
-
 describe('pretender creation', function(config) {
   config.afterEach(function() {
     if (pretender) {