> aslak hellesoy wrote: >>> >>> Hey Folks, >>> >>> >> >> Aargh profiles. The initial intention was that you could just do >> cucumber -p foo. >> And then you wouldn't have to type a lot of arguments. >> >> The intention was *not* to use -p along with additional arguments, >> although cucumber lets you do it by merging stuff together. >> >> Using profiles as a mechanism to run various subsets of features and >> step definitions that live underneath the same features directory is >> something I do *not* recommend. It's much easier to have several >> different root folders: >> >> features # regular stuff >> selenium_features # only selenium stuff >> >> And a rake task for each. Or run cucumber selenium_features or >> cucumber features as you see fit. >> >> I know the wiki recommends all this crazy profile stuff. I'm sorry >> about that - I didn't write it. >> > > I somewhat disagree, the combination of profiles + tags is a good way to > organize the features IMO. > The feature file talks about the feature > regardless of if it uses JS or not. So, if you have a feature that uses > webrat 90% of the time but then has one or two scenarios that require JS you > don't need to split that feature into two separate features files- you can > just tag them. I can see how having separate dirs can be helpful as well, > but in general I kinda like the "crazy profile" stuff. :) >
Good points Ben. People ask questions almost daily about Selenium, and many of them seem related to profiles. Since I don't use either of them much I'm not in a good position to help people with it. That's why I recommend people go for a less complex setup. Aslak > FWIW, > > Ben > >> >>> >>> I followed the instructions on >>> http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/setting-up-selenium >>> and created 2 profiles: default and selenium. It works, but not if I >>> want to run one feature under a specifc profile. For example, I tried: >>> >>> cucumber -p default --require features features/plain/ >>> manage_users.feature >>> >>> and I get all the tests including the selenium server. >>> >>> What's goin' on like? >>> >> >> Try to add --verbose to see what's going on. Or better - organise your >> features like I described above, and lose the profiles. >> >> Aslak >> >> >>> >>> Thanks >>> _______________________________________________ >>> rspec-users mailing list >>> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
