Thanks for your reply Ben. +1 on your wording recommendation - I
understand and agree 100%
However - for me - the Background block executes before each example
in the table. Therefore, the database is cleared twice, and the
second example ('duplicate userid') fails.
(Cucumber 0.3.1 / ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin])
Here are some snippets from a little workaround that i've employed...
in env.rb:
State = {'feature_file'=>'initialize'}
in my_steps.rb:
unless State['feature_file'] ==
@__cucumber_current_step.file_colon_line.split(':').first
puts "CLEANUP CODE HERE - RUN ONCE PER FEATURE FILE --------"
end
State['feature_file'] =
@__cucumber_current_step.file_colon_line.split(':').first
I'm sure there must be a better way! I am still learning cucumber so
any advice is welcome!
;-)
On Apr 28, 11:28 am, Ben Mabey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Arco wrote:
> > I'd like to do this:
>
> > Feature: user signup
> > Before:
> > Given I have a cleaned up database
> > Scenario Outline: Sign Up
> > Given I am on the signup page
> > When I sign up using <userid>
> > Then I should see <message>
> > Examples:
> > |userid |message |
> > |userX |successful signup |
> > |userX |duplicate userid |
>
> > "I have a cleaned up database" runs before every example, making the
> > second example ('duplicate userid') fail.
>
> You could use Background and it would work just like you want it to:
>
> Feature: user signup
> Background:
> Given I have a cleaned up database
> Scenario Outline: Sign Up
> Given I am on the signup page
> When I sign up using <userid>
> Then I should see <message>
> Examples:
> |userid |message |
> |userX |successful signup |
> |userX |duplicate userid |
>
> However, I would not encourage this. You should try to avoid using technical
> words, such as database, in your features. If anything you could say "Given
> no users exist" or something like that. Keeping your database clean is
> something you generally want for every scenario though. So I would suggest
> putting the code in your "Given I have a cleaned up database" code into a
> Before block. The wiki has a page on using the Before
> hook:http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/hooks
>
> Basically, in your env.rb file you will add something like:
>
> Before do
> Database.clean! # or however you clean your DB
> end
>
> HTH,
> Ben
>
>
>
> > On Apr 28, 9:38 am, aslak hellesoy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Arco <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>> OK - I found a workaround. I simply tag the first scenario with
> >>> '@first', then
> >>> do Before('@first') and i get what I want - executing a block once for
> >>> the feature file.
>
> >>> Except for one problem: most of my scenarios are done as scenario
> >>> outlines, which
> >>> are run multiple times - once for each row of my Example table.
>
> >>> A workaround to that problem might be to put a 'dummy' scenario that
> >>> is run before the other scenarios in my feature file...
>
> >>> �...@first
> >>> Scenario: Call a before block before running other scenarios...
>
> >>> But this puts junk in my feature files. Is there a better, cleaner
> >>> way??
>
> >> a) Why do you need one thing to happen before a feature?
> >> b) Why can't you do it before each scenario?
>
> >> Aslak
>
> >>> On Apr 28, 8:32 am, Arco <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>>> I also would like a hook that executes a block once before running a
> >>>> feature file.
>
> >>>> In my testing i found that:
> >>>> - Background: executes before each scenario
> >>>> - Before executes before each scenario
> >>>> - Before('@tag') executes before each scenario
>
> >>>> Is there a way to execute a block once before each feature, but not
> >>>> before each scenario?
>
> >>>> On Apr 28, 7:08 am, aslak hellesoy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>>>>> Hi -- is it possible to set before and after blocks for individual
>
> >>> feature
>
> >>>>>> files?
>
> >>>>> Yes. Use tagged hooks:
>
> >>>http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/hooks
>
> >>>>> Aslak
>
> >>>>>> I've tried putting them in step files, but they just get called
>
> >>> before
>
> >>>>>> everything, like they'd been declared in env.rb, which is consistent
>
> >>> with
>
> >>>>>> how I thought cucumber worked, but I thought I'd best try it anyway.
> >>>>>> Anyway, I have some features that require a specific state be set up
>
> >>> before
>
> >>>>>> they run -- is this possible to do, and how would I go about doing
>
> >>> it?
>
> >>>>>> Thanks for any & all help,
> >>>>>> Doug.
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