I have a feature spec that looks like this:
Scenario: The entity common name should be normalized
Given 1 valid entity
And I am on the edit entity page
When I fill in "Common Name" with " ANYThing WronG wITh
tHiS? "
And I press "Update"
Then I should see an update success confirmation
And I should see "Anything Wrong With This?"
More Examples:
| initial | after |
| "ALL CAPS" | "All Caps"
|
| " Squeeze leading space" | "Squeeze Leading
Space" |
| " Compact Internal space" | "Compact Internal
Space" |
The first bit passes but for the life of me I cannot figure out what I am
supposed to do to get the More Examples to work.
I will grant from the outset that testing a string normalization feature
might be done somewhere/someway else but I am learning RSpec/Cucumber and
for now am taking that single minded approach to testing. On the other
hand, I am not adverse to suggestions on how this might be best handled.
Guidance Please?
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On 17 Nov 2008, at 20:33, James B. Byrne wrote:> I have a feature spec that looks like this: > > > Scenario: The entity common name should be normalized > Given 1 valid entity > And I am on the edit entity page > When I fill in "Common Name" with " ANYThing WronG wITh tHiS? " > And I press "Update" > Then I should see an update success confirmation > And I should see "Anything Wrong With This?" > > More Examples: > | initial | after | > | "ALL CAPS" | "All Caps" | > | " Squeeze leading space" | "Squeeze Leading Space" | > | " Compact Internal space" | "Compact Internal Space" | > > The first bit passes but for the life of me I cannot figure out what > I am > supposed to do to get the More Examples to work.You''re probably not specifying all the variables you need to. Until we get the Scenario Outlines feature[1], you have to put a column in your More Examples table for every capture group in the regular expressions in your matchers. The way I usually do this is look at the output in the console from Cucumber and see where the bits are underlined, and make a column for each of them. That can feel a bit silly when most of them don''t vary during your extra examples, but that''s why we need the Scenario Outline feature. For the time being it''s still great that we can do this at all. cheers, Matt [1]http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16211/tickets/57-scenario-templates-to-allow-for-terse-scenario-tables
Matt Wynne wrote:> On 17 Nov 2008, at 20:33, James B. Byrne wrote: >> >> More Examples: >> | initial | after | >> | "ALL CAPS" | "All Caps" | >> | " Squeeze leading space" | "Squeeze Leading Space" | >> | " Compact Internal space" | "Compact Internal Space" | >> >> The first bit passes but for the life of me I cannot figure out what >> I am >> supposed to do to get the More Examples to work. > > You''re probably not specifying all the variables you need to. > > Until we get the Scenario Outlines feature[1], you have to put a > column in your More Examples table for every capture group in the > regular expressions in your matchers. >I took out the check for the success confirmation to simplify things. I added columns for the field and the action. The remaining matcher is in webrat_steps: Then /^I should see "(.*)"$/ do |text| response.body.should =~ /#{text}/m end This is what I see in the console: Scenario: The entity common name should be normalized # features/manage_entities.feature:41 Given 1 valid entity # features/step_definitions/entity_steps.rb:25 And I am on the edit entity page # features/step_definitions/entity_steps.rb:54 When I fill in "Common Name" with " ANYThing WronG wITh tHiS? " # features/step_definitions/webrat_steps.rb:12 And I press "Update" # features/step_definitions/webrat_steps.rb:4 Then I should see "Anything Wrong With This?" # features/step_definitions/webrat_steps.rb:36 |field |input |action |display | |"Common Name"|"ALL CAPS" |"Update"|"All Caps" |/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.1.9/bin/../lib/cucumber/formatters/pretty_formatter.rb:212:in `print_row'': You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! (NoMethodError) do I misunderstand what you tried to tell me? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
James Byrne wrote:> This is what I see in the console:The underlining didn''t come through in you post, so that doesn''t help us. If you post your step matchers, then we can tell you what your columns need to be. Essentially, for every (.*) in your step matchers, you need a column. And they have to be in the order they are in the story. Here is an example: Scenario: The entity common name should be normalized Given I am on the edit entity page When I fill in "Common Name" with " ANYThing WronG wITh tHiS? " And I press "Update" Then I should see "Anything Wrong With This?" More Examples: | page | field | initial | Button | after | | the edit entity page | Common Name | "ALL CAPS" | Update | "All Caps" | | the edit entity page | Common Name | " Squeeze leading space" | Update | "Squeeze Leading Space" | | the edit entity page | Common Name | " Compact Internal space" | Update | "Compact Internal Space" | Given /^I am on the "(.*)"$/ do |page| When /^I fill in "(.*)" with "(.*)"$/ do |field, value| When /^I press "(.*)"$/ do |button| Then /^I should see "(.*)"$/ do |text| You also need to be careful about ". I''m not sure if the way you are using those will include " in the string. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Pau Cor wrote:> James Byrne wrote: >> This is what I see in the console: > The underlining didn''t come through in you post, so that doesn''t help > us. > > If you post your step matchers, then we can tell you what your columns > need to be. Essentially, for every (.*) in your step matchers, you need > a column. And they have to be in the order they are in the story. >Thank you. I was diverted from dealing with this for a bit but have since resolved the matter using your advice. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.