This may be an abuse of cucumber to test extensions, but I found a nasty gotcha:

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 $LOAD_PATHS ($:) -- 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:

 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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