> > On 8 May 2009, at 09:12, aslak hellesoy wrote: > > >> >> On 8 May 2009, at 05:55, Mike Doel wrote: >> >> Cucumber is awesome and destined to rule the world. As that starts to >> happen, has there been any thought of a mechanism for the community to build >> a library of common, generally useful steps that can be used across >> projects? I've got stuff that I use for myself at: >> >> http://github.com/mdoel/cukesteps/tree/master >> >> This is stuff that I wish were in the default webrat_steps.rb file that >> you get at the start. Would it be better to fork Cucumber and add them >> there and send a pull request to Aslak? >> >> It seems to me that there's an opportunity for packaging together and >> sharing steps, but am curious of folks thoughts on the best way to go about >> this. >> >> Mike >> >> Great stuff, Mike. >> >> I had a similar thought a while back, but it never really took off: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/rspec-users@rubyforge.org/msg07936.html >> >> I feel like this might be better suited to being a separate project, as >> you'll eventually have steps that are only relevant in certain contexts (we >> have quite a few that depend on factory_girl, for example), and it's likely >> to change at a different rate to the core cucumber code. >> >> It's almost like you want a kind of plug-in mechanism for sharing >> re-usable step libraries. >> >> I agree with Matt - this sounds great. Could you add a link to the related >> tools page in the wiki? >> >> I think we already have a plugin mechanism for this. It's called RubyGems >> ;-) >> >> Aslak >> > > So are you saying we'd put the steps in a gem, then include them using > require? > > So I can do this in my env file: > > gem 'cucumber-steps' > > require 'cucumber/steps/webrat' > require 'cucumber/steps/factory_girl' > > or in another project that uses the command line: > > gem 'cucumber-steps' > > require 'cucumber/steps/console' > > Is that the kind of thing you mean?
Yes. > I think it would be good to allow for steps that cater to different use > cases to all be in the same library but allow you to pick and chose the ones > that are relevant to your project. > So several files in the same gem? Different requires? > > Matt Wynne > http://blog.mattwynne.net > http://www.songkick.com > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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