Dear list,
Today I am working through the simple tutorial here:
http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/ruby-on-rails
It has me install Cucumber-Rails and then create a feature.
Then I watch the feature fail when I run
rake cucumber
Then I watch the feature pass after I implement some code with the
help of:
script/generate rspec_scaffold Frooble name:string color:string
description:text
So I am happy.
I am curious though.
I’d like to have a browser appear and act-as-robot-driven.
This is convenient for my development efforts.
It allows me to rapidly create a development state inside a controller
and then halt the controller with a debugger statement.
Then I attach my mind to that state and tinker with values of
variables and snippets of code.
This is behavior I observed on a Rails project I wrote back in late
2009.
Back then I was using this combination of gems:
- cucumber 0.6.x
- rspec-rails-1.2.9
- Selenium-1.1.14
So, here is my question:
Using this combo of gems, is it possible to have a browser appear and
act-as-robot-driven:
cucumber (0.7.3)
cucumber-rails (0.3.1)
capybara (0.3.5)
???
On May 18, 11:08 am, Audrey A Lee [email protected] wrote:
Then I watch the feature pass after I implement some code with the
cucumber (0.7.3)
cucumber-rails (0.3.1)
capybara (0.3.5)
???
If you are looking for an easy way to ‘drive’ a browser with Ruby I’d
suggest looking at WATIR (Web Application Testing In Ruby) which is
designed for just that sort of thing.
I use it along with Cucumber to do regression test suites that test
the system ‘end to end’
In my case I happen to use it within the Watircraft framework, just
because it makes things a bit easier when doing a whole suite of
tests, but for simple stuff it’s probably overkill.
There’s also something called ‘watercuke’ referenced in the ccumber
wiki (which I really don’t know much about) that provides a enhanced
level of integration…
If you search the web you can perhaps also find some recordings that
people have done at various conferences or user-group meetings where
demo’s were done of using Water and Cucumber together
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Chuck van der Linden
[email protected] wrote:
rake cucumber
This is behavior I observed on a Rails project I wrote back in late
Using this combo of gems, is it possible to have a browser appear and
suggest looking at WATIR (Web Application Testing In Ruby) which is
designed for just that sort of thing.
I actually recommend you look at Capybara instead of Watir. It
supports all major browsers by using the rock-solid Selenium2
(WebDriver) under the hood.
Watir works too, but if you use Capybara you can use all of the
features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb out of the box.
Just add the @javascript tag above a Feature or Scenario and it should
just work.
Aslak