I thought you all might be interested in my second tutorial: http://www.ultrasaurus.com/code/2008/12/rails-2-day-4-rcov-and-bdd.html It covers more webrat plus a trickier delete scenario, based on a previous thread: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/171269 I also tried to follow Matt Wynne''s refactoring advice http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/174015#762387 but realized that I still need to learn a lot before I understand all the Rails magic that goes on when I call generate scaffold, but I posted that question over on the wider Rails forum: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/174419#new Interested, as always, if folks read the tutorial and would advise a different approach or improvements, and I''d be happy to answer questions if I''m ahead of anyone on the cucumber/rails/ruby learning curve :) Cheers, Sarah http://www.ultrasaurus.com -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
This is outstanding work and very useful, very nice. Question: In your quest for BDD nirvana have you broached the subject of setup/teardown and reuse of Setup code? What is a clean way of establishing a complex baseline state before operating on it with a suite of cucumber tests and without duplicating the "Given" in all of the subsequent "When" and "Thens"? Do you add a "helper.rb" to the steps folder or ? to keep this clean? Many Thanks! Sincerely, Tim On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Sarah Allen <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:> I thought you all might be interested in my second tutorial: > http://www.ultrasaurus.com/code/2008/12/rails-2-day-4-rcov-and-bdd.html > > It covers more webrat plus a trickier delete scenario, based on a > previous thread: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/171269 > > I also tried to follow Matt Wynne''s refactoring advice > http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/174015#762387 but realized that I still > need to learn a lot before I understand all the Rails magic that goes on > when I call generate scaffold, but I posted that question over on the > wider Rails forum: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/174419#new > > Interested, as always, if folks read the tutorial and would advise a > different approach or improvements, and I''d be happy to answer questions > if I''m ahead of anyone on the cucumber/rails/ruby learning curve :) > > Cheers, > Sarah > http://www.ultrasaurus.com > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
Tim Walker wrote:> Question: In your quest for BDD nirvana have you broached the subject > of setup/teardown and reuse of Setup code?Matt Wynne has a good blog post about re-using steps in cucumber: http://blog.mattwynne.net/2008/11/14/dry-up-your-cucumber-steps/> What is a clean way of establishing a complex baseline state before > operating on it with a suite of cucumber tests and without duplicating > the "Given" in all of the subsequent "When" and "Thens"? Do you add a > "helper.rb" to the steps folder or ? to keep this clean?I also was reading that it is better to just set up your db data and establish a session, rather than doing all of the actions simulating the user. Here''s a related post: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/174289#763689 There was another post or maybe it was a blog I was reading that gave specific example code for how to set up a session without going thru the login user steps, but I can''t find the reference.... perhaps someone else knows. I''m glad the tutorial was helpful. Sarah -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.