Custom Matcher and Webrat methods

I would like to be able to write a custom matcher so that I could call
this test, for instance:

@user.should be_allowed_to_visit(url)
@non_welcome.should_not be_allowed_to_visit(url)

The matcher would call Webrat methods such as ‘visit’.

The problem is that it would try to call ‘visit’ from User class instead
of the binding in which @user access is verified…

I have manually set the binding to the Matcher in a before(:all), to
avoid calling ‘be_allowed_to_visit(url, binding)’, but I would like to
know if there would be a better way to “get” this binding…

Any thoughts on that?

Thanks,

Rodrigo.


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On 8 Dec 2009, at 22:04, Rodrigo Rosenfeld R. wrote:

I have manually set the binding to the Matcher in a before(:all), to
avoid calling ‘be_allowed_to_visit(url, binding)’, but I would like
to know if there would be a better way to “get” this binding…

Any thoughts on that?

How have you defined the matcher? If you use the old-school technique
where you create a matcher class and a helper method to construct the
class (instead of using the shiny new matcher DSL) then the method
should execute in the context that can see the binding, so you can
pick it up and pass it into the matcher class at that point.

Make sense?

cheers,
Matt

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Matt W. escreveu:

where you create a matcher class and a helper method to construct the
class (instead of using the shiny new matcher DSL) then the method
should execute in the context that can see the binding, so you can
pick it up and pass it into the matcher class at that point.

Make sense?
Thank you, Matt, I have finally got it working. The trick is passing
self to the initialize of the matcher class like:

def be_allowed_to_visit(url)
BeAllowedToVisit.new(url, self) # def initialize(url, scope);
scope.visit url…;end
end

One problem less :slight_smile: Next one to be solved: making Selenium work faster
with Webrat :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Rodrigo.


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Matt W. escreveu:

You might want to look at replacing webrat with Capybara then. I’ve
not tried it myself, but I understand Selenium2 (which Capybara
supports) is much faster.
Thank you once again Matt. I wonder how you get updated by these new
gems… :slight_smile:

I’ll give Capybara a try. It seems well documented and also the Webrat
list is almost dead lately… Only a few questions and no answer
lately…

Thank you for the suggestion.

Best Regards,

Rodrigo.


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On 10 Dec 2009, at 00:53, Rodrigo Rosenfeld R. wrote:

The matcher would call Webrat methods such as ‘visit’.
How have you defined the matcher? If you use the old-school
def be_allowed_to_visit(url)
BeAllowedToVisit.new(url, self) # def initialize(url, scope);
scope.visit url…;end
end

One problem less :slight_smile: Next one to be solved: making Selenium work
faster with Webrat :slight_smile:

You might want to look at replacing webrat with Capybara then. I’ve
not tried it myself, but I understand Selenium2 (which Capybara
supports) is much faster.

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cheers,
Matt

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