On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Joseph Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Premdas wrote: >> >> Assuming you're writing a feature for a black box that works under >> linux, osx but not under windows. Can you not write a features like >> >> Given I'm on windows >> When I run black box >> I should get an error ... >> >> Given I'm on OSX >> When I run black box >> I should not get an error ... >> >> Just an idea, HTH >> >> Andrew >> >> >> 2008/11/22 Luis Lavena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> >>> Hello Guys, >>> >>> May this question be silly, so I'm exposing myself as a complete dumb ;-) >>> >>> I've been working on a project called rake-compiler, which enable the >>> building of extension with C compilers in a standarized way. >>> >>> http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler/tree/master >>> >>> The thing is been driven by features and with some specs to guide me >>> in the task associations of rake, but not much after. >>> >>> Now I have a problem: I want to introduce cross compilation which can >>> only be executed in certain environments, not all. >>> >>> I have specs that tell me what will happen (what things will get >>> defined as rake tasks) and the chain, but I cannot execute it under >>> Windows. >>> >>> Only under OSX or Linux can be executed (which I'm using right now to >>> drive it). >>> >>> There is a way that I can exclude this feature from being executed in >>> this case? I will prefer to avoid having a feature list to maintain, >>> but if is the only choice, no problem. >>> > > You could use profiles in the cucumber.yml file. Rather than creating a long > feature list you can exclude a feature from one profile. > > Cucumber accepts: > -e, --exclude PATTERN Don't run features matching a pattern > > @@@ > windows: --format progress features --exclude pesky_windows_feature > mac: --format progress features > @@@ > > Then run them with: > cucumber --profile windows > cucumber --profile mac > > HTH,
Thanks Joseph, I will love to drive the "show" only using "rake features" or by calling cucumber features directly, thus avoiding to remember that exclusion list. BTW: the pesky feature will be OSX and Linux, not Windows, so the pesky ones are posix, not Windows ;-) -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
