rspec users - Mar 2008 - Wrong story step running

Hi

I have three steps like this:

  Given ''a user called "$name" of type $user_type and status
$user_state in
organisation "$organisation_name"'' do |name, user_type,
user_state,
organisation_name|
    $runs ||= 1
    puts "MOO #{$runs}"
    $runs += 1
    # ...
  end

  Given ''a user called "$name" with username
"$username" of type $user_type
and status $user_state in organisation "$organisation_name"''
do |name,
username, user_type, user_state, organisation_name|
    # ...
  end

  Given ''a user called "$name" with secondary email
"$secondary_email" of
type $user_type and status $user_state in organisation
"$organisation_name"''
do |name, secondary_email, user_type, user_state, organisation_name|
    # ...
  end


When I run a story containing these step calls:

    And a user called "Mr Kameron Friesen" of type END_USER and status
APPROVED in organisation "My Infant School"
    And a user called "Mr Adam Kameron" of type END_USER and status
APPROVED
in organisation "My Infant School"
    And a user called "Mr Matching Username" with username "
kameron_is_cool at technophobia.com" of type END_USER and status APPROVED
in
organisation "My Infant School"
    And a user called "Mrs Matching SecondaryEmail" with secondary
email "
kameron99 at technophobia.com" of type END_USER and status APPROVED in
organisation "My Infant School"
    And a user called "Miss NotMe Kovacek" of type END_USER and status
APPROVED in organisation "My Infant School"
    And a user called "Mr No Match" of type END_USER and status
APPROVED in
organisation "Kameron''s School Should Not Match"

It always runs the body of the FIRST step, and not the ones that allow
passing a username or email.  I know this because of the debugging output I
left in the step above.

Anyone got an idea why this is happening?  I''m gonna have to work
around it
for now, if I can figure out how.

Thanks
Ashley
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Found this: if I change the other steps to

And a user called "Mr Matching Username" with username "
kameron_is_cool at technophobia.com" of typex END_USER and status APPROVED
in
organisation "My Infant School"

    And a user called "Mrs Matching SecondaryEmail" with secondary
email "
kameron99 at technophobia.com" of typex END_USER and status APPROVED in
organisation "My Infant School"

then the "typex" makes it work again.  Is story runner having trouble
matching stories when they are of the following pattern?
A + B
A + X + B
A + Y + B


Ashley
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On 28/03/2008, Ashley Moran <ashley.moran at patchspace.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Is story runner having trouble matching stories when they are of the
> following pattern?
> A + B
> A + X + B
> A + Y + B


Came across this again, it also causes problems when the steps are of the
form
A
A + X

However, I found a (slightly better) workaround, which is to put the most
specific steps first.

I filed a ticket here:
http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5645/tickets/353-story-runner-step-matches-are-order-dependent


Ashley
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