Here is the scenario:
Scenario: Create a new entity row
Given I am on the new entity page
When I fill in a textbox labelled "Common Name" with "My New
Entity"
And I fill in a textbox labelled "Full Legal Name:" with "My
New
Enitity is a CORP"
And I select from a listbox labelled "Legal Form:" the value
"CORP"
And I press "Create"
Then I should see "Entity was successfully created."
Now, the suggestions that cucumber makes about missing step definitions
are very useful, but I am not yet at the point where I understand enough
of this to proceed. For the moment I need to sort out the relationship of
cucumber with webrat.
In the case above, what I see when I run rake features is this:
Scenario: Create a new entity row # features/manage_entities.feature:7
Given I am on the new entity page # features/steps/entity_steps.rb:1
When I fill in a textbox labelled \
"Common Name" with "My New Entity" #
features/steps/entity_steps.rb:5
And I fill in a textbox labelled \
"Full Legal Name:" with "My New Enitity is a CORP" \
# features/steps/entity_steps.rb:8
And I select from a listbox labelled \
"Legal Form:" the value "CORP" #
features/steps/entity_steps.rb:11
And I press "Create" #
features/steps/common_webrat.rb:4
Then I should see \
"Entity was successfully created." #
features/steps/common_webrat.rb:36
expected: /Entity was successfully created./m,
got: "<!-- application.html.erb -->\r\n<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC \
So, evidently I need some other specification to check the validity of the
action with respect to the web page displayed. Can some one give me a
hint as to what "I should see "X" should actually say? Should
this be a
regex? In other worlds should the outcome be specified as:
Then I should see "*Entity was successfully created*"
Unfortunately, I have many, many more questions, but I will try to feed
them in slowly.
Regards,
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On Thu, November 13, 2008 11:51, James B. Byrne wrote:> So, evidently I need some other specification to check the validity of the > action with respect to the web page displayed. Can some one give me a > hint as to what "I should see "X" should actually say? Should this be a > regex? In other worlds should the outcome be specified as: > > Then I should see "*Entity was successfully created*" > >Actually, I have discovered that what I need to do is to create some steps to move the data passed by the When clauses into the form variables and thus get the expected result instead of an error. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3
What you''re doing here is writing imperative features. Writing declarative features might be a better alternative. Instead of Given I am on the new entity page When I fill in a textbox labelled "Common Name" with "My New Entity" And I fill in a textbox labelled "Full Legal Name:" with "My New Enitity is a CORP" And I select from a listbox labelled "Legal Form:" the value "CORP" And I press "Create" Then I should see "Entity was successfully created." You could consider Given I am on the new entity page When I correctly fill in the new entity form Then I should see a confirmation Then the feature has much less technical stuff in it that 1) Hide the intent 2) Make the story brittle to cosmetic changes, in particular to small rewordings of error messages and confirmations A side effect of this is you need much less regex magic to match your expressions. HTH Andrew 2008/11/13 James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>:> > On Thu, November 13, 2008 11:51, James B. Byrne wrote: > >> So, evidently I need some other specification to check the validity of the >> action with respect to the web page displayed. Can some one give me a >> hint as to what "I should see "X" should actually say? Should this be a >> regex? In other worlds should the outcome be specified as: >> >> Then I should see "*Entity was successfully created*" >> >> > > Actually, I have discovered that what I need to do is to create some steps > to move the data passed by the When clauses into the form variables and > thus get the expected result instead of an error. > > > -- > *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** > James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca > Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca > 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 > Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 > Canada L8E 3C3 > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
Andrew Premdas wrote:> What you''re doing here is writing imperative features. Writing > declarative features might be a better alternative. Instead of...> > Given I am on the new entity page > When I correctly fill in the new entity form > Then I should see a confirmation > > Then the feature has much less technical stuff in it that > > 1) Hide the intent > 2) Make the story brittle to cosmetic changes, in particular to small > rewordings of error messages and confirmations > > A side effect of this is you need much less regex magic to match your > expressions. >This advice does help. Thank you. Is there a way to mix webrat and hard coded steps? In other words, if I have this in my steps file. Given /I am on the new entity page/ do visits "/entities/new" end When /I fill out the form correctly/ do fills_in("Common Name", :with => "My Common Name") fills_in("Legal Name", :with => "My Legal Name") Entity.entity_legal_name = "CORP" # does not work end Is this possible? How do I set the attribute "entity_legal_form" to "CORP" for that entity? I cannot figure out how to reference that entity instance. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Generally you can do whatever you want in step as its a ruby file. The thing to do is use a debugger statement to stop in the step (make sure there is a line after debugger) and then explore. In your step the Entity you are referring to is probably a class not a variable HTH Andrew 2008/11/14 James Byrne <lists at ruby-forum.com>:> Andrew Premdas wrote: >> What you''re doing here is writing imperative features. Writing >> declarative features might be a better alternative. Instead of > ... >> >> Given I am on the new entity page >> When I correctly fill in the new entity form >> Then I should see a confirmation >> >> Then the feature has much less technical stuff in it that >> >> 1) Hide the intent >> 2) Make the story brittle to cosmetic changes, in particular to small >> rewordings of error messages and confirmations >> >> A side effect of this is you need much less regex magic to match your >> expressions. >> > > This advice does help. Thank you. > > Is there a way to mix webrat and hard coded steps? In other words, if I > have this in my steps file. > > Given /I am on the new entity page/ do > visits "/entities/new" > end > > When /I fill out the form correctly/ do > fills_in("Common Name", :with => "My Common Name") > fills_in("Legal Name", :with => "My Legal Name") > Entity.entity_legal_name = "CORP" # does not work > end > > Is this possible? > > How do I set the attribute "entity_legal_form" to "CORP" for that > entity? I cannot figure out how to reference that entity instance. > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >