On 9 Sep 2008, at 05:42, DyingToLearn wrote:
Hi,
Here is the short version of my question:
For stories, is webrat the way to go? How many of you use webrat? How
many don't?
Here is the long version:
I have been writing specs for some time now. I have noticed that once
I learned how to write specs (both the syntax and the techniques) it
made my development much faster and more reliable. However, while I
was learning my development was painfully slow. So far it seems to be
the same with stories.
From the recent posts I've seen on this mailing list, it looks like I
should focus my efforts on learning cucumber instead of the built-in
story runner. It is mostly compatible with what is already in RSpec,
and it has some good extra features. Do you generally agree with that?
+1
What I am confused about, is whether or not I should learn webrat. It
looks great in theory, and I've see it mentioned a few times. But I
haven't seen a wide-spread move towards it. On top of that, the first
time I looked at it I got rather confused.
Yeah it's definitely the way to go to give you a nice abstraction
layer between your steps code and the app itself, assuming you're on
rails. Not tried any of the other adapters (selenium etc) yet.
The reason I ask (instead of just trying it for myself) is that I'm
the only developer on most of the projects I work on, so I can't
afford a huge drop in productivity. And if my efforts learning to
write specs are much of a guideline, it will probably take me 3-4
weeks to get comfortable with writing stories.
Make sure you read through the other threads on this list about
declarative vs imperative stores etc - there's a lot of learning been
done even in the short amount of time this stuff has been used.
I would expect to waste some time splashing around though, yup.
I know I need to learn this, so I want to focus my efforts where I
will get the most return on my time.
Thanks
PS. I am REALLY looking forward to the RSpec book!
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