On 20 September 2010 10:26, Edmond Kachale <[email protected]>wrote:
> Railers, > > I am running an application on Rails 2.3.2. For some reason within our > organization, we wish to remain on this version of Rails. For BDD/Testing, > we use Cucumber. So I installed Cucumber (0.8.5), Capybara (0.3.9) and > Selenium-webdriver (0.0.17). But when I run Cucumber on any feature, I get > an error saying *" wrong number of arguments (2 for 1) (ArgumentError)"*, > (Check here for more: http://pastie.org/1169557). In addition, Selenium > web-driver was initiating two web browser windows concurrently. But, the > features were just "fine and good". > > Folks, it took me ages to figure out the problem. The error itself did not > give a clue as to what went wrong. Neither did Cucumber inform/tip/warn me > about anything. But after hours of trial and error, I discovered that the > three giants, Cucumber (0.8.5), Capybara (0.3.9) and Selenium-webdriver > (0.0.17), were just incompatible with Rails 2.3.2. When I changed the > RAILS_GEM_VERSION in config/environment.rb from '2.3.2' to '2.3.5'. The > features run awesomely cool!. > > I'm glad to have solved it (and I liked the experience!!). So if anyone is > finding the same problem with some Cucumber version (esp. >= 0.8.5 ) plus > its peripherals (Yes, I said peripherals [?][?]), hip-hop-hooray! salvation > is here: > > - make sure you have the latest rails gem version (> 2.3.2) > - If you would like to stick to your previous Rails version, then you > can be switching between the versions. I do this manually, I would like to > find a better way just automate it so that anyone ( who wishes to do so) > can > run the "Cukes" without problems. > > Do you mean that you run the tests with rails 2.3.5 but use 2.3.2 in production? That seems like a bad idea to me. Colin > > - > > Kind regards, > > --- > Edmond > Software Developer | Baobab Health Trust (http://www.baobabhealth.org/) | > Malawi > > Cell: +265 999 465 137 | +265 881 234 717 > > *"Many people doubt open source software and probably don’t realize that > there is an alternative… which is just as good.." -- Kevin Scannell* > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
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