I discovered this while debugging a RadiantCMS extension:
cucumber uses 'require' to load step definitions, _and_ since I loaded
the rails environment (in features/support/env.rb) for testing, _and_
radiant necessarily adds extensions to the load path, the path to
_every_ extension in your project is added to $LOAD_PATH ($:) -- and,
it is a sorted list (items are not queued).
Imagine the fun when you try to load 'features/support/paths.rb' only
to discover (after single stepping through a lot of code) that it
required an identically named file, but from a completely different
project. DLL hell.
e.g. Given this tree, trying to run 'rake spec:features' in .../
data_manager pulls in files from .../citations first because it is
lexically before it.
RAILS_ROOT
|-- config
| `-- environments
`-- vendor
|-- extensions
| |-- citations
| | |-- Rakefile
| | |-- features
| |-- data_manager
| | |-- Rakefile
| | |-- features
`-- radiant
|-- features
| |-- admin
| |-- step_definitions
| `-- support
I'm not sure what the solution is, but for now, if you modify your
extension Rakefile to include the following (prepend the patterns with
the current directory):
...
Cucumber::Rake::Task.new(:features) do |t|
# t.cucumber_opts = "..."
t.step_pattern = File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/features/**/*.rb"
t.feature_pattern = File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/features/**/
*.feature"
end
Please note: I'm getting deprecation warnings, in 3.0, about using
these accessors, but the command line options are not yet available.
Aloha a hui hou,
Ken
--
Ken Mayer / kma...@bitwrangler.com / 808-722-6142 / http://www.bitwrangler.com/
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