Cucumber: Running one feature under one profile

Testing RSpec
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Hey Folks,

I followed the instructions on
http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/setting-up-selenium
and created 2 profiles: default and selenium. It works, but not if I
want to run one feature under a specifc profile. For example, I tried:

cucumber -p default --require features features/plain/
manage_users.feature

and I get all the tests including the selenium server.

What’s goin’ on like?

Thanks

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Hey Folks,

Aargh profiles. The initial intention was that you could just do
cucumber -p foo.
And then you wouldn’t have to type a lot of arguments.

The intention was not to use -p along with additional arguments,
although cucumber lets you do it by merging stuff together.

Using profiles as a mechanism to run various subsets of features and
step definitions that live underneath the same features directory is
something I do not recommend. It’s much easier to have several
different root folders:

features # regular stuff
selenium_features # only selenium stuff

And a rake task for each. Or run cucumber selenium_features or
cucumber features as you see fit.

I know the wiki recommends all this crazy profile stuff. I’m sorry
about that - I didn’t write it.

I followed the instructions on http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/setting-up-selenium
and created 2 profiles: default and selenium. It works, but not if I
want to run one feature under a specifc profile. For example, I tried:

cucumber -p default --require features features/plain/
manage_users.feature

and I get all the tests including the selenium server.

What’s goin’ on like?

Try to add --verbose to see what’s going on. Or better - organise your
features like I described above, and lose the profiles.

Aslak

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aslak hellesoy wrote:

I know the wiki recommends all this crazy profile stuff. I’m sorry
about that - I didn’t write it.

I somewhat disagree, the combination of profiles + tags is a good way to
organize the features IMO. The feature file talks about the feature
regardless of if it uses JS or not. So, if you have a feature that uses
webrat 90% of the time but then has one or two scenarios that require JS
you don’t need to split that feature into two separate features files-
you can just tag them. I can see how having separate dirs can be
helpful as well, but in general I kinda like the “crazy profile” stuff.
:slight_smile:

FWIW,

Ben

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The intention was not to use -p along with additional arguments,
And a rake task for each. Or run cucumber selenium_features or
webrat 90% of the time but then has one or two scenarios that require JS you
don’t need to split that feature into two separate features files- you can
just tag them. I can see how having separate dirs can be helpful as well,
but in general I kinda like the “crazy profile” stuff. :slight_smile:

Good points Ben.

People ask questions almost daily about Selenium, and many of them
seem related to profiles. Since I don’t use either of them much I’m
not in a good position to help people with it. That’s why I recommend
people go for a less complex setup.

Aslak