ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound error Cucumber/Webrat

Testing RSpec
1

Hello,

I am bit new to Cucumber and Webrat and I have one issue that I can’t
seem
to fix on my own. I would appreciate your help.

I have a controller called places and a model called Place. I use the
acts_as_tree plugin in order for a place to have more places within it.
Ex.
Georgia would have Cobb County, Cobb County would have Smyra City.

This is how my controller looks for adding a new place:

loading the parent place

before_filter :load_parent_place, :only => [:new, :create]
def load_parent_place
@parent_place = Place.find(params[:parent_id])
end

GET /places/new

def new
@place = @parent_place.children.create

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # new.html.erb
end

end

POST /places

def create
@place = @parent_place.children.create(params[:place])

respond_to do |format|
  if @place.save
    flash[:notice] = 'Place was successfully created.'
    format.html { redirect_to(@place) }
  else
    format.html { render :action => "new" }
  end
end

end

I have created the cucumber feature also, but it errors out:

Scenario: Register new place
Given I am on the new place page with parent place “Georgia”
When I fill in “Name” with “Atlanta”
And I press “Create”
Then I should see “Atlanta”

For the first line starting with “Given”, I tried to put this step, but
it
errors out with Couldn’t find Place with ID=1
(ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound)

Given /I am on the new place page with parent place “(.*)”/ do |name|
visits “/places/new?parent_id=1”
Place.create! :name => name, :parent_id => 1
end

What am I doing wrong or how should I proceed with writing these steps
for
this action?

Thank you,

2

Hello,

I am bit new to Cucumber and Webrat and I have one issue that I can’t
seem
to fix on my own. I would appreciate your help.

I have a controller called places and a model called Place. I use the
acts_as_tree plugin in order for a place to have more places within it.
Ex.
Georgia would have Cobb County, Cobb County would have Smyra City.

This is how my controller looks for adding a new place:

loading the parent place

before_filter :load_parent_place, :only => [:new, :create]
def load_parent_place
@parent_place = Place.find(params[:parent_id])
end

GET /places/new

def new
@place = @parent_place.children.create

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # new.html.erb
end

end

POST /places

def create
@place = @parent_place.children.create(params[:place])

respond_to do |format|
  if @place.save
    flash[:notice] = 'Place was successfully created.'
    format.html { redirect_to(@place) }
  else
    format.html { render :action => "new" }
  end
end

end

I have created the cucumber feature also, but it errors out:

Scenario: Register new place
Given I am on the new place page with parent place “Georgia”
When I fill in “Name” with “Atlanta”
And I press “Create”
Then I should see “Atlanta”

For the first line starting with “Given”, I tried to put this step, but
it
errors out with Couldn’t find Place with ID=1
(ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound)

Given /I am on the new place page with parent place “(.*)”/ do |name|
visits “/places/new?parent_id=1”
Place.create! :name => name, :parent_id => 1
end

What am I doing wrong or how should I proceed with writing these steps
for
this action?

Thank you,

3

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Andrei E. [email protected] wrote:

  if @place.save

visits “/places/new?parent_id=1”
Place.create! :name => name, :parent_id => 1
end

What am I doing wrong or how should I proceed with writing these steps for
this action?

Try this:

Given /I am on the new place page with parent place “(.*)”/ do |name|
parent = Place.create! :name => name
visits “/places/new?parent_id=#{parent.id}”
end

4

Thank you, that worked.

I have a new issue. I tried finding a solution for this everywhere. Only
source is this article:
http://afreshcup.com/2008/10/09/authentication-in-cucumber-tests/

I am using Restful Authentication and I would like to login in Cucumber.
This is how my feature looks like:

Scenario: Register new place
Given I am logged in as a user
And I am on the new place page with parent place “Georgia”
When I fill in “Name” with “Atlanta”
And I press “Create”
And I should see “Atlanta”

This is the step:

Given /I am logged in as a user/ do
@current_user = Factory.define :user do |u|
u.name ‘the user’
u.email ‘[email protected]’
u.login ‘the_login’
u.password ‘password’
u.password_confirmation ‘password’
end
visits “/login”
fills_in(“login”, :with => “the_login”)
fills_in(“password”, :with => “password”)
clicks_button(“Log in”)
end

places controller

before_filter :login_required, :only => [:create]

GET /places/new

def new
@place = @parent_place.children.create

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # new.html.erb
end

end

POST /places

def create
@place = @parent_place.children.create(params[:place])

respond_to do |format|
  if @place.save
    flash[:notice] = 'Place was successfully created.'
    format.html { redirect_to(@place) }
  else
    format.html { render :action => "new" }
  end
end

end

The “Given I am logged in as a user” step passes, along with all the
steps,
except the last one (And I should see “Atlanta”). The problem is that
the
login page is shown and not the show page with the new place created.

What do I have to set in Cucumber so that it acts as if the user is
logged
in? In know that in Rspec :login_required should return true. What’s the
equivalent of that in Cucumber?

Thank you