On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:34 AM, William Tozier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to set up cucumber so we can try it in some Ruby automation > scripts I'm working on. These will be straight Ruby, for use in BBEdit and > TextMate (on the Mac). > > NOT Rails. > > The big early-stage stumbling block I'm having is setting up the initial > Rakefile and directory structure. I think I'm rtfm'ing, but clearly I'm > missing whatever I need to get past square one. > > We'll be working on Leopard boxes, with clean and up-to-date gem installs > across the board. Most of our coding is in TextMate, and the cucumber gem > works AOK already. All the gems seem to be here, and the example files in > the cucumber repository work as expected. > > But I'm not understanding what a minimal setup for a NEW project should be. > > * I need a Rakefile... but with what exactly in it? Many of the examples are > different, and at least a few fail to run on my box (but that's external > dependencies). What's the bare minimum I need to have in a plain, empty > Rakefile?
This: http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/tree/master/examples/calculator/Rakefile > * A cucumber.yml file, which as I understand it is only needed if I want to > set params away from defaults. You don't need that - I've removed it from the Calculator example since it might be confusing for newcomers. > * A "fixtures" directory... but with what necessary subdirectories in it? features/ +--*.features +--steps/ +--*_steps.rb > * A "lib" directory sometimes... but not in all examples? Using lib is just a Ruby/Ruby gems convention. You should adjust your $LOAD_PATH to include it. Some examples are simple, so they have the code straight in the steps file. I thought it was obvious that this is not what you'd do on a real project, but rather stick it in lib like 98% of all other Ruby projects do. > > Am I missing a simple generator script somewhere in the base cucumber > install? NOT for Rails -- just for a plain Ruby project? > There is none - you're the first to ask for it. > Thanks very much. Again, all I'd really like to do is see a noobs' > walkthrough like: > (1) create an empty project directory > (2) build standard directory tree > (3) clone in standard Rakefile > (4) get started speccing. > > (2) and (3) are my problem. > Please file individual tickets for things you're missing (docs, generator) and someone will hopefully get to it. Aslak > Thanks much! > ----- > Bill Tozier > AIM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] • Twitter:Vaguery > http://williamtozier.com/slurry > > "The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream; it is a most depressing > and humiliating reality." > -- Oscar Wilde > > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
