Tag Archives: cucumber

IronRuby vs. Gherkin – a temporary fix

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Nat

IronRuby doesn’t currently work with the latest versions of cucumber. This is a known bug and is a real pain. There is a work around, and it’s kinda rubbish: don’t use any versions of cucumber > 0.6.3. After that version, … Continue reading →

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Netbeans ‘Cucumber Features’ plugin in Beta!

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Nat

The best ruby IDE, Netbeans, now has a Cucumber plugin in beta! It’s the old “QuBiT” plugin that I’ve been using for a while though it looks like it’s been rebranded as the “Cucumber Features” plugin. Here it is: As … Continue reading →

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Remove junk from IronRuby cucumber output

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Nat

When running cucumber tests under IronRuby, your output will be full of junk like the following: Feature: example feature Scenario: a scenario←[90m     # features\testoutput.feature:3←[0m ←[32mGiven some test setup←[90m  # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:1←[0m←[0m ←[32mWhen I do something←[90m    # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:5←[0m←[0m ←[32mThen something happens←[90m # … Continue reading →

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Updated script to list all cucumber step definitions

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Nat

In a previous post I put up a small script that would dump out all step definitions available in a cucumber project. Here’s an updated version… it hasn’t changed much apart from the output is now a html table that … Continue reading →

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How to list all cucumber step definitions

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Nat

If you’re using cucumber you probably have step definitions split across several files, and you’re probably using a tool that doesn’t do a good job of listing the available step definitions (one of the biggest downsides of using cucumber). What … Continue reading →

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Cucumber step definition for debugging

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Nat

Building on a previous post about debugging cucumber tests with ruby-debug, here’s a simple cucumber step definition you can use in your cucumber scenario in order to debug it: Then /^I debug$/ do breakpoint 0 end Use it as follows: … Continue reading →

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Debugging cucumber tests with ruby-debug

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Nat

Testing with cucumber blows test/unit out of the water, apart from one small aspect… I can’t use the Netbeans’ GUI debugger. The Netbeans debugger has been a joy to use, but sadly I have to say goodbye. So I’m left … Continue reading →

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