> > On 8 May 2009, at 05:55, Mike Doel wrote: > > Cucumber is awesome and destined to rule the world. As that starts to >> happen, has there been any thought of a mechanism for the community to build >> a library of common, generally useful steps that can be used across >> projects? I've got stuff that I use for myself at: >> >> http://github.com/mdoel/cukesteps/tree/master >> >> This is stuff that I wish were in the default webrat_steps.rb file that >> you get at the start. Would it be better to fork Cucumber and add them >> there and send a pull request to Aslak? >> >> It seems to me that there's an opportunity for packaging together and >> sharing steps, but am curious of folks thoughts on the best way to go about >> this. >> >> Mike >> > > Great stuff, Mike. > > I had a similar thought a while back, but it never really took off: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rspec-users@rubyforge.org/msg07936.html > > I feel like this might be better suited to being a separate project, as > you'll eventually have steps that are only relevant in certain contexts (we > have quite a few that depend on factory_girl, for example), and it's likely > to change at a different rate to the core cucumber code. > > It's almost like you want a kind of plug-in mechanism for sharing re-usable > step libraries. >
I agree with Matt - this sounds great. Could you add a link to the related tools page in the wiki? I think we already have a plugin mechanism for this. It's called RubyGems ;-) Aslak > Matt Wynne > http://beta.songkick.com > http://blog.mattwynne.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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