lets say you set an environment variable
ENV['URL'] ||= "test"
then when you call the url you can do something like
browser.goto("www.someserver.com/#{ENV['URL']}/app_path/")
so by default if you just do something like
rspec
it will go to "www.someserver.com/test/app_path/"
but if you do
URL=something_else rspec
it will go to "www.someserver.com/something_else/app_path/"
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oscar,
>
> You've piqued my interest now. By your suggestion, are you refering to
> editing the script file prior to running? or some other way? Is there a
> link to some documentation to show me more about your suggestion? An
> example would greatly ensure my understanding.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ryan
>
> On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 5:26:17 AM UTC-7, Oscar.Rieken wrote:
>
>> if its a differnt url for every build depending on the changes in the url
>> why not just pass that in to the url string at run time
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Ry <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Would that work if URL changes a few times a day? We cut what we call a
>>> release from development and the URL contains link to our product site in
>>> the dev enviroment with the change code. So basically its a new URL for
>>> every change we do.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 4:02:19 PM UTC-7, Dave McNulla wrote:
>>>
>>>> Of course. You can store information in a yaml file, ini file, or
>>>> properties file. Where I work, we use buildr with properties files that
>>>> allow us to switch the system under test as easily as using a different
>>>> environment variable:
>>>> buildr -e test cuke
>>>> where test represents a test.properties file, and cuke runs our
>>>> cucumber feature files.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps,
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:28:25 PM UTC-7, Ry wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I will try my best to explain my question.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible...
>>>>>
>>>>> I have several sites, they are essentially the same, (same menus,
>>>>> reports ect..) the GUI is identical, but data may vary. Test sites,
>>>>> essentially, but each site has a different URL in testing or staging
>>>>> environment.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because that is the case, currently, we have to edit our script and
>>>>> change the url each time we want to run a script to a specific site.
>>>>>
>>>>> THE QUESTION! =)
>>>>>
>>>>> could the script have a variable of some sort that looks to a field in
>>>>> a web page (that we're building in house) to see what site is pasted in
>>>>> the
>>>>> field and then run the script using whatever site is listed in the field?
>>>>> or something similar to that, but basically a universal variable for the
>>>>> URL that someone can run across several sites with same GUI, but without
>>>>> having to edit the script.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for any ideas on this.
>>>>>
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