testing $emit in angular directive's controller

I am a little confused on testing $emit inside of a controller. The controller I am setting up exists inside of a directive. I am confused about two parts on setting up the test. How to set up $emit in the test? I am using Jasmine so I did a

    spyON(scope, '$emit')

My test could not find an object to spy on. Here is my test.

describe('hero Directive', function () {
    var $compile,
        $rootScope,
        scope,
        element,
        ctrl;

    beforeEach(function () {
        angular.mock.module('ha.module.core');

I am defining the controller and setting a scope inside the inject. I compiled the html so that I could use the directive.

        angular.mock.inject(function (_$compile_, _$rootScope_, _$controller_) {
            $compile = _$compile_;
            $rootScope = _$rootScope_;
            scope = $rootScope.$new();

I assumed the error could be in the controller but it seems to be set up correct.

            ctrl = _$controller_('ExploreHeroController', { scope: scope });

the directive uses templateUrl I am hoping that I can test with mock out a div and compile it.

            var html = '<div explore-hero></div>';
            element = $compile(angular.element(html))(scope);
            scope.$digest();
        });

    });

    describe('directive controller', function () {
        it('should dispatch call $emit with $methodsBound', function () {
            spyOn(scope, '$emit');

            //expect(scope.$emit).toHaveBeenCalledWith('$methodsBound');
        });
    });

});

the emit sits inside of my directives controller

var controller = function($scope) {
    $scope.$emit('$methodsBound');
}