diabolo / another_cuke_rails

Haven't done a rails/cucumber sample app for a while, so here is a new upto date one.

another_cuke_rails

Rails/Cucumber sample app.

This application uses Cukes to drive a minimal web application that allows users to sign up and sign in.

It illustrates the seperation of WHAT and WHY from HOW. Features and their scenarios are used to describe WHAT we are doing and WHY its important. Step definitions are used ONLY as a translation layer, and helper methods in seperate modules (added to Cucumber's World) are used to actually drive the application.

Some other points to note are:

• the use of the @i variable to communicate between step definitions.
• the use of a helper class to deal with Users, and in particular the concept that Users interacting with an application are different from Users stored inside the application (for instance the latter does not know the Users password).
• the development of functionality (signing up) and its later reuse
• bypassing the UI when reusing signing up, so that signing in is cheap. This sets a pattern of a Given bypassing the UI by using functionality developed by a When using the UI