tonini / cucumber-rails

Rails Generators for Cucumber with localized steps for Capybara and Webrat

Cucumber-Rails¶ ↑

Cucumber-Rails brings Cucumber to Rails2 and Rails3. It contains 2 generators - one for bootstrapping your Rails app for Cucumber, and a second one for generating features.

Cucumber-Rails also contains Cucumber Step Definitions that wrap Capybara or Webrat, giving you a head start for writing Cucumber features against your Rails app.

Installation¶ ↑

Rails 3:¶ ↑

Before you can use the generator, add the necessary gems to your project’s Gemfile as follows:

gem 'capybara'
gem 'database_cleaner'
gem 'cucumber-rails'

Or if you prefer the latest and greatest:

gem 'capybara',         :git => 'git://github.com/jnicklas/capybara.git'
gem 'database_cleaner', :git => 'git://github.com/bmabey/database_cleaner.git'
gem 'cucumber-rails',   :git => 'git://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber-rails.git'

Then install the gems by running:

bundle install

Finally, bootstrap your Rails app by running:

ruby script/rails generate cucumber:skeleton

Rails 2.x:¶ ↑

Before you can use the generator, install the gem by running:

gem install cucumber-rails

Finally, bootstrap your Rails app by running:

script/generate cucumber

Generating a Cucumber feature¶ ↑

IMPORTANT: Only do this if you are new to Cucumber. We recommend you write your Cucumber features by hand once you get the hang of it.

Rails 3:¶ ↑

Example:

ruby script/rails generate cucumber:feature post title:string body:text published:boolean
ruby script/rails generate scaffold post title:string body:text published:boolean
rake db:migrate
rake cucumber

Rails 2:¶ ↑

Example:

ruby script/generate feature post title:string body:text published:boolean
ruby script/generate scaffold post title:string body:text published:boolean
rake db:migrate
rake cucumber