Feature: Cucumber integration with rails As a developer using cucumber and rails I want to use Spork with Cucumber In order to eliminate the startup cost of my application each time I run them Background: Sporked env.rb Given I am in a fresh rails project named "test_rails_project" And the application has a model, observer, route, and application helper And a file named "features/support/env.rb" with: """ require 'rubygems' require 'spork' ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "test" Spork.prefork do # Loading more in this block will cause your tests to run faster. However, # if you change any configuration or code from libraries loaded here, you'll # need to restart spork for it take effect. # Sets up the Rails environment for Cucumber require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../config/environment') require 'cucumber' require 'cucumber/formatter/unicode' # Comment out this line if you don't want Cucumber Unicode support require 'rspec/rails' require 'cucumber/rails/rspec' #### this is for this test only ####### $loaded_stuff << 'prefork block' ###### ####################################### end Spork.each_run do #### this is for this test only ####### $loaded_stuff << 'each_run block' ##### ####################################### end """ And a file named "features/cucumber_rails.feature" with: """ Feature: cucumber rails Scenario: did it work? Then it should work Scenario: did it work again? Then it should work """ And a file named "features/support/cucumber_rails_helper.rb" with: """ $loaded_stuff << 'features/support/cucumber_rails_helper.rb' """ And a file named "config/database.yml" with: """ test: adapter: sqlite3 database: db/test.sqlite3 timeout: 5000 """ And a file named "features/step_definitions/cucumber_rails_steps.rb" with: """ Then "it should work" do (Rails.respond_to?(:logger) ? Rails.logger : ActionController::Base.logger).info "hey there" $loaded_stuff.should include('ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection') $loaded_stuff.should include('User') $loaded_stuff.should include('UserObserver') $loaded_stuff.should include('ApplicationHelper') $loaded_stuff.should include('config/routes.rb') $loaded_stuff.should include('features/support/cucumber_rails_helper.rb') $loaded_stuff.should include('each_run block') $loaded_stuff.should include('prefork block') puts "It worked!" end Alors /ca marche/ do end """ Scenario: Analyzing files were preloaded When I run spork --diagnose Then the output should not contain "user_observer.rb" Then the output should not contain "user.rb" Then the output should not contain "app/controllers/application.rb" Then the output should not contain "app/controllers/application_controller.rb" Then the output should not contain "app/controllers/application_helper.rb" Then the output should not contain "features/step_definitions/cucumber_rails_steps.rb" Then the output should not contain "features/support/cucumber_rails_helper.rb" Scenario: Running spork with a rails app and no server When I run cucumber --drb features Then the error output should contain """ WARNING: No DRb server is running. Running features locally """ Scenario: Running spork with a rails app and observers When I fire up a spork instance with "spork cucumber" And I run cucumber --drb features Then the error output should be empty And the output should contain "It worked!" And the file "log/test.log" should include "hey there" Scenario: Running spork with a rails app and a non-standard port When I fire up a spork instance with "spork cucumber -p 9000" And I run cucumber --drb --port 9000 features Then the error output should be empty And the output should contain "It worked!" And the file "log/test.log" should include "hey there"