cuke-pack/README.md

cuke-pack

Common Cucumber setups to make things go fast and smooth.

Install it

# Gemfile

gem 'cuke-pack'

bundle exec cuke-pack install

This will overwrite your config/cucumber.yml file with one that plugs in nicely with Guard. It also adds a new config file in features/support/cuke-pack.rb.

Specifying the driver

If you have other Capybara drivers installed like Poltergeist of persistent_selenium, you can specify the driver as an environment variable:

DRIVER=poltergeist bundle exec cucumber

Confirming JavaScript

If you need to confirm an alert() or confirm(), you can do so in your step with confirm_js. Just replaces window.alert and window.confirm with functions that return true.

Step Writer

Enables cucumber-step_writer for you.

Flay your steps

I can get duplicate code in my steps pretty quickly. Sometimes I flay them to see where the duplicates are and then I factor out the common code.

Hijacking @wip

I personally think the original use of @wip in Cucumber is silly. Why would you commit non-working features to the source repository? So this project re-purposes @wip to let you focus your Cucumber test runs on a single feature and work on it until it runs:

Guard

If you're using Guard for continuous testing, install the wip guard:

bundle exec cuke-pack wip-guard

You can then use Guard to only run scenarios with the tag @wip:

bundle exec guard -g wip

Precommit

If you run tests before committing your code with a tool like penchant, you can configure your tests to run using the precommit profile. This one ensures that there are no @wip scenarios. It also lets you skip certain features/scenarios that are tagged @no-precommit. Good for turning off tests that you haven't needed to touch in a while. Just be careful with it!

Other things

You can easily enable FakeFS, Mocha, and Timecop if you need them. Turn them on in cuke-pack.rb and then use the right tag on your scenario.

Old things

There's some stuff that is so deprecated that I'll remove it eventually, once all my other offending projects don't use them anymore. You shouldn't use them either.