Webrat - Ruby Acceptance Testing for Web applications
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= Webrat - Ruby Acceptance Testing for Web applications
- http://gitrdoc.com/brynary/webrat
- http://groups.google.com/group/webrat
- http://webrat.lighthouseapp.com/
- http://github.com/brynary/webrat
- #webrat on Freenode
== Description
Webrat lets you quickly write expressive and robust acceptance tests for a Ruby
web application.
== Features
* Browser Simulator for expressive, high level acceptance testing without the
performance hit and browser dependency of Selenium or Watir (See Webrat::Session)
* Use the same API for Browser Simulator and real Selenium tests using
Webrat::Selenium when necessary (eg. for testing AJAX interactions)
* Supports multiple Ruby web frameworks: Rails, Merb and Sinatra
* Supports popular test frameworks: RSpec, Cucumber, Test::Unit and Shoulda
* Webrat::Matchers API for verifying rendered HTML using CSS, XPath, etc.
== Example
class SignupTest < ActionController::IntegrationTest
def test_trial_account_sign_up
visit home_path
click_link "Sign up"
fill_in "Email", :with => "good@example.com"
select "Free account"
click_button "Register"
end
end
Behind the scenes, Webrat will ensure:
* If a link, form field or button is missing, the test will fail.
* If a URL is invalid, the test will fail.
* If a page load or form submission is unsuccessful, the test will fail.
== Installing Nokogiri
Users of Debian Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) need to run:
sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev.
Otherwise the Nokogiri gem, which Webrat depends on, won't install properly.
== Install for Rails
To install the latest release as a gem:
sudo gem install webrat
To install the latest code as a plugin: (_Note:_ This may be less stable than using a released version)
script/plugin install git://github.com/brynary/webrat.git
In your test_helper.rb or env.rb (for Cucumber) add:
require "webrat"
Webrat.configure do |config|
config.mode = :rails
end
== Install with Merb
Merb 1.0 has built-in, seamless Webrat support. Just start using
methods from Webrat::Session in your specs.
== Authors
- Maintained by {Bryan Helmkamp}[mailto:bryan@brynary.com]
- Original code written by {Seth Fitzsimmons}[mailto:seth@mojodna.net]
- Initial development was sponsored by EastMedia[http://www.eastmedia.com]
- Many other contributors. See attributions in History.txt
== License
Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Bryan Helmkamp, Seth Fitzsimmons.
See MIT-LICENSE.txt in this directory.