On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Tom Cloyd <tomcl...@comcast.net> wrote:
> A hope my ignorance is acceptable here. I have, to this point, > programmed in Ruby mostly using my awareness of procedural programming; > I've written a small number of very useful programs for myself. I'm starting > to use classes now - just starting. > > I have a small project I'm working on - setting up a database based on the > directed acyclic graph (DAG) model (using Ruby only). I'm been studying > test-directed development, which led me to BDD, at which point I got really > excited. I truly want to go forward with learning cucumber, and rspec. > > So here I am trying to started using cucumber, and I'm having a little > trouble. The documentation in the cucumber wiki isn't, to my poverty > stricken perception, at all procedural, although individual pages seem > quite lucid and accessible. After reading and rereading (I've looked at > every page, and most several times), it appears that the "start" page is > "Cucumber Backgrounder". The problem is that this assumes you are working > with Rails, about which I know little and desire to know less. I get stuck, > on that page, at the phrase... > > ==When you run "script/generate cucumber" == > > Huh? Is this something you do in Rails? > Yes, this is Rails only. I recommend you take a look at the examples/i18n folder. You'll find some really simplistic Cucumber code that is simple Ruby. No Rails or other complex material. Aslak > Then there's this -- > > ----- > > Running script/generate cucumber adds this layout to the existing > structure: > > ||-- features > | |-- step_definitions > | | `-- webrat_steps.rb > | `-- support > | `-- env.rb > | > > We are now ready to begin testing with cucumber. > > ----- > > Well, maybe for some people...but not for me. > > I simply cannot see what to do first. Do I manually create some kind of > directory structure and fill it with...well, with what? Feature > description files? And then what do I do? I'm guessing that this is > covered by the "Running features" page. Am I right? > > Is there documentation somewhere that talks about using cucumber to > launch BDD using a non-Rails Ruby program? I think that's what I really > need. I cannot quite get past this stuck place, so any help at all would > be much appreciated. I'm sorry to bother folks with this - I'm sure it's > all quite obvious to you; I wish it were to me, and hope that it soon > will be. > > Hopefully, > > Tom > > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Tom Cloyd, MS MA, LMHC - Private practice Psychotherapist > Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226 > << t...@tomcloyd.com >> (email) > << TomCloyd.com >> (website) > << sleightmind.wordpress.com >> (mental health weblog) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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