On May 18, 11:08 am, Audrey A Lee <audrey.lee.is...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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) > > ??? > _______________________________________________
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 _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
