So I'm playing with
Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Ruby on Rails using
Cucumber and
Webrat. I thought I'd start with the simplest feature I could think of, "I want to see the application name in the title". So, off we go with features/site_layout.feature:
Feature: Site Layout
In order to build familiarity
As a user
I want to see the application name in the title
Scenario:
Given I am on the home page
Then the title tag should be "WOW App"
I create features/steps/site_steps.rb:
Given /^I am on (.*)$/ do |page|
visits case page
when "the home page"
"/"
else
raise "Can't find mapping from \"#{page}\" to a path"
end
end
Then /^the (.*) tag should be "(.*)"$/ do |tag, content|
response.should have_tag(tag, content)
end
And run it with "rake features". What I get is:
C:\dev\temp>rake features
(in C:/dev/temp)
Feature: Site Layout # features/site_layout.feature
In order to build familiarity
As a user
I want to see the application name in the title
Scenario: Given I am on the home page # features/site_layout.feature:6
Then the title tag should be "WOW App" # features/steps/site_steps.rb:10
You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.content_type (NoMethodError)
...
./features/steps/site_steps.rb:11:in `Then /^the (.*) tag should be "(.*)"$/'
features/site_layout.feature:8:in `Then the title tag should be "WOW App"'
1 steps failed
rake aborted!
Not quite what I had in mind, I was expecting a failure, but got an error. Nevermind, this is all very new to me, so I'll push on and it'll all become clear right?
I create an app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
<title>WOW App</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Run the feature again ... no joy, same error. Hours of web searching leads me nowhere. Finally while looking at some examples I noticed that my Scenario doesn't have a description, so I add one on line 6:
Feature: Site Layout
In order to build familiarity
As a user
I want to see the application name in the title
Scenario: On the home page
Given I am on the home page
Then the title tag should be "WOW App"
Now I get:
C:\dev\temp>rake features
(in C:/dev/temp)
Feature: Site Layout # features/site_layout.feature
In order to build familiarity
As a user
I want to see the application name in the title
Scenario: On the home page # features/site_layout.feature:6
Given I am on the home page # features/steps/site_steps.rb:1
No route matches "/" with {:method=>:get} (ActionController::RoutingError)
...
features/site_layout.feature:7:in `Given I am on the home page'
Then the title tag should be "WOW App" # features/steps/site_steps.rb:10
1 steps failed
1 steps skipped
rake aborted!
A quick addition to config/routes.rb:
map.root :controller => 'example'
And a stub controller from "ruby script\generate controller Example index", I get:
C:\dev\temp>rake features
(in C:/dev/temp)
Feature: Site Layout # features/site_layout.feature
In order to build familiarity
As a user
I want to see the application name in the title
Scenario: On the home page # features/site_layout.feature:6
Given I am on the home page # features/steps/site_steps.rb:1
Then the title tag should be "WOW App" # features/steps/site_steps.rb:10
2 steps passed
Hurrah!
