rspec users - Feb 2009 - [Cucumber] and rake pass command-line params

Hi list,

I might have not asked this correctly in previous post.. and most definitely
weren?t clear! let?s try again :)

I can?t seem to find any examples of using a rake variable in the Cucumber
task. What I want to do is run my cucumber test using cruisecontrol and
setting a variable in script to either to start Firefox or Internet Explorer
with selenium. Which leads me to the question, how do I access this
browser_type variable in my_steps.rb file?  

## Rakefile
Cucumber::Rake::Task.new do |t|
  profile = ENV[''PROFILE''] || ''default''
  browser_type = ENV[''BROWSER''] || ''*chrome''
  t.cucumber_opts = "--profile #{profile}"
end
 
## my_steps.rb
Before do
  browser = Selenium::SeleniumDriver.new(server_host, server_port,
browser_type, root_url, time_out)
end

Let me guess, it?s very easy... but I am still new to the Ruby World :clap:

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On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:24 PM, AndreXP <andre.x.pretorius at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I might have not asked this correctly in previous post.. and most
definitely
> weren''t clear! let''s try again :)
>
> I can''t seem to find any examples of using a rake variable in the
Cucumber
> task. What I want to do is run my cucumber test using cruisecontrol and
> setting a variable in script to either to start Firefox or Internet
Explorer
> with selenium. Which leads me to the question, how do I access this
> browser_type variable in my_steps.rb file?
>
I suggest you look up ENV[''BROWSER''] (and anything else you
might need
to configure Selenium) directly in your my_steps.rb file
(I also suggest you move Before blocks to features/support/env.rb)

# Rakefile
Cucumber::Rake::Task.new do |t|
  profile = ENV[''PROFILE''] || ''default''
  t.cucumber_opts = "--profile #{profile}"
end

# features/support/env.rb
Before do
  browser_type = ENV[''BROWSER''] || ''*chrome''
  browser = Selenium::SeleniumDriver.new(server_host, server_port,
browser_type, root_url, time_out)
end

If you want to rely less on environment variables, you can make
yourself a YAML file with settings (e.g. selenium.yml) consisting of a
Hash of Hash:

chrome:
  server_host: foo
  browser: *chrome
  timeout: 2
ie:
  server_host: bar
  browser: *ie
  timeout: 9

And do something like this in your env.rb:

profile = ENV[''PROFILE'']
c = YAML.read_file(''features/selenium.yml'')[profile]
browser = Selenium::SeleniumDriver.new(c[''server_host''], ...)

-and be done with one single env var - PROFILE

HTH,
Aslak
> ## Rakefile
> Cucumber::Rake::Task.new do |t|
>  profile = ENV[''PROFILE''] || ''default''
>  browser_type = ENV[''BROWSER''] ||
''*chrome''
>  t.cucumber_opts = "--profile #{profile}"
> end
>
> ## my_steps.rb
> Before do
>  browser = Selenium::SeleniumDriver.new(server_host, server_port,
> browser_type, root_url, time_out)
> end
>
> Let me guess, it''s very easy... but I am still new to the Ruby
World :clap:
>
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Great advice, I did all the suggestions you made, and... it is GOOD and
CLEAN:)

Thanks Aslak

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:58 PM, aslak hellesoy <aslak.hellesoy at
gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:24 PM, AndreXP <andre.x.pretorius at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I might have not asked this correctly in previous post.. and most
> definitely
> > weren''t clear! let''s try again :)
> >
> > I can''t seem to find any examples of using a rake variable in
the
> Cucumber
> > task. What I want to do is run my cucumber test using cruisecontrol
and
> > setting a variable in script to either to start Firefox or Internet
> Explorer
> > with selenium. Which leads me to the question, how do I access this
> > browser_type variable in my_steps.rb file?
> >
>
> I suggest you look up ENV[''BROWSER''] (and anything else
you might need
> to configure Selenium) directly in your my_steps.rb file
> (I also suggest you move Before blocks to features/support/env.rb)
>
> # Rakefile
> Cucumber::Rake::Task.new do |t|
>  profile = ENV[''PROFILE''] || ''default''
>  t.cucumber_opts = "--profile #{profile}"
> end
>
> # features/support/env.rb
> Before do
>  browser_type = ENV[''BROWSER''] ||
''*chrome''
>  browser = Selenium::SeleniumDriver.new(server_host, server_port,
> browser_type, root_url, time_out)
> end
>
> If you want to rely less on environment variables, you can make
> yourself a YAML file with settings (e.g. selenium.yml) consisting of a
> Hash of Hash:
>
> chrome:
>  server_host: foo
>  browser: *chrome
>  timeout: 2
> ie:
>  server_host: bar
>  browser: *ie
>  timeout: 9
>
> And do something like this in your env.rb:
>
> profile = ENV[''PROFILE'']
> c = YAML.read_file(''features/selenium.yml'')[profile]
> browser = Selenium::SeleniumDriver.new(c[''server_host''],
...)
>
> -and be done with one single env var - PROFILE
>
> HTH,
> Aslak
>
> > ## Rakefile
> > Cucumber::Rake::Task.new do |t|
> >  profile = ENV[''PROFILE''] ||
''default''
> >  browser_type = ENV[''BROWSER''] ||
''*chrome''
> >  t.cucumber_opts = "--profile #{profile}"
> > end
> >
> > ## my_steps.rb
> > Before do
> >  browser = Selenium::SeleniumDriver.new(server_host, server_port,
> > browser_type, root_url, time_out)
> > end
> >
> > Let me guess, it''s very easy... but I am still new to the
Ruby World
> :clap:
> >
> > --
> > View this message in context:
>
http://www.nabble.com/-Cucumber--and-rake-pass-command-line-params-tp21789574p21789574.html
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> >
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>
>
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