Ben Mabey wrote:
James Byrne wrote:
Ben Mabey wrote:
As the cucumber wiki page says about autotest
(http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/wikis/autotest-integration)
if
you want to override the arguments used by autotest you need to define
an 'autotest' profile in your cucumber.yml file. I added information
about profiles here:
http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/wikis/running-features.
I suggest that, as helpful as this is, it might be much improved if
you could discuss the default behaviour of cucumber with an empty
cucumber.yml and what this equates to with the options explicitly
set. Following illumination of this point then describe what one
might like to alter together with the reasons why and show the
setting for that.
For the default behavior type "cucumber --help". The first flag reads:
" -r, --require LIBRARY|DIR Require files before executing
the features.
If this option is not specified,
all *.rb files that
are siblings or below the features
will be autorequired
This option can be specified
multiple times.
"
So.. the autorequiring of the ruby files next to the passed in
feature(s) to be ran is the default behaviour.
I have found that when approaching a new technology, instructions and
examples are ofttimes needlessly opaque simply because there is no
mapping provided between out-of-the-box behaviour and the available
alternatives. Once one is familiar with the tool such things are
obvious, which no doubt is why they are so often omitted form
discussion. But to people just beginning to explore a new
environment such examples are extremely helpful.
Great idea! Someone should probably add that to the wiki...
-Ben
Sorry if that last remark came across a little snide. What I meant to
say was that the wiki is a community effort and it would be great if you
could improve it with your insight and point of view.
The wiki instructions probably do suffer from what you described because
most of the wiki has been written by people who have been involved in
cucumber/rspec story runner from the beginning (or who are familiar with
the code base.) So our instructions may not be as helpful to newcomers
as we had hoped. Since you are coming from a different perspective it
would be extremely helpful for your insights to be added to the wiki to
help other people who are beginning and will probably have the same
questions you have had.
Thanks,
Ben
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