Given /^there is a wire server (running |)on port (\d+) which understands the following protocol:$/ do |running, port, table| protocol = table.hashes @server = FakeWireServer.new(port.to_i, protocol) start_wire_server if running.strip == "running" end Given /^the wire server takes (.*) seconds to respond to the invoke message$/ do |timeout| @server.delay_response(:invoke, timeout.to_f) start_wire_server end module WireHelper def start_wire_server @wire_pid = fork do @server.run end end def stop_wire_server return unless @wire_pid Process.kill('KILL', @wire_pid) Process.wait end end Before('@wire') do extend(WireHelper) end After('@wire') do stop_wire_server end