Comments on: rails 2 day 3: behavior-driven development

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:41:59 +0000

I believe webrat is designed to work with rack apps, so it would work with Sinatra, but not PHP. If you want to work with a non-Ruby webapp, look at Capybara using the Mechanize driver. I wrote a short blog post about that here: /sarahblog/2011/02/legacy-testing-with-capybaramechanize/

By: cyprian

cyprian — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:08:44 +0000

Sarah, thanks so much for sharing your efforts. One question I have is this:
Do you have to use the ruby-rails framework to get webrat to work? Can you just use garden-variety ruby? It seems from all the sites I have visited, and the Rspec/Cucumber book I’m using that webrat is tightly coupled to Ruby-rails.

Any insights you could share would be most appreciated.

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Cucumber quicksetup at Pablo Cantero — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:06:24 +0000

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By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:49:12 +0000

To resolve the missing ‘a’ issue, see: http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/troubleshooting

By: Matthew Platte

Matthew Platte — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:40:49 +0000

The missing “a” on Windows is a known bug (I’m too lazy to provide a url).

By: shane smith

shane smith — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:57:30 +0000

Thank you for this tutorial.
Webrat now has a “When I go to(.+)$/” step.
If you put the path webrat should visit in features/support/paths.rb, then webrat should be able to folow the “When I go to the tasks page” directive.

By: Hoornet

Hoornet — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:37:04 +0000

Hello! I have another problem on winXP. After running rake featurer in your “Describe a Feature” chapter, this is what I got. It’s OK, but there are no letters ‘a’ !!!!!
Any ideas?

Code begin:

E:SOURCERAILSrails-2-day-3-behavior-driven-developmenttodolist>rake features

(in E:/SOURCE/RAILS/rails-2-day-3-behavior-driven-development/todolist)
´?? # fetures/tsklist.feture
Feture: Tsks
In order to keep trck of tsks
People should be ble to
Crete list of tsks
Scenrio: List Tsks # fetures/tsklist.feture:7
Given tht I hve creted tsk “tsk 1” # fetures/tsklist.feture:8
When I go to the tsks pge # fetures/step_definitions/webrt_st
eps.rb:6
Then I should see “tsk 1” # fetures/step_definitions/webrt_s
teps.rb:89

1 scenrio
2 steps skipped
1 step pending (1 with no step definition)

You cn use these snippets to implement pending steps which hve no step definitio
n:

Given /^tht I hve creted tsk “tsk 1″$/ do
end

E:SOURCERAILSrails-2-day-3-behavior-driven-developmenttodolist>

By: Ted Roche

Ted Roche — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:07:46 +0000

Great tutorial. However, webrat has gotten ahead of you, I think. With webrat 1.12, it generated a

#When /^I go to (.+)$/ do |page_name|
# visit path_to(page_name)
#end

which I just commented out to finish the tutorial. Properly, I suspect I should have worked out path_to, but I was focused on making the tutorial work…

By: Joe Darling

Joe Darling — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:24:41 +0000

Great tutorial. I have been really struggling to find this type of step by step guide that is both up to date and covers BDD. Thanks very much.

Two minor things: When I did the rake db:migrate only the development database was migrated and the tests are run on production by default. Once I changed RAILS_ENV and ran the migration again all worked.

Second: I think the webrat dependency problem has been sorted out. I just used the gem install version and the example worked OK.

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