[rspec-users] Any plans for Before-feature or Before-all steps in Cucumber?

[Ashley Moran]

On 2 Dec 2008, at 15:26, Joseph Wilk wrote:

> BeforeAll (Before running any feature) is currently possible through  
> putting something in your env.rb or really any ruby file that gets  
> required. It will be run once (and before anything else).
> I use this to manage ferret/selenium. The before/afters being used  
> to tell the service to cleanup so we have clean environment for each  
> test. Could you do the same?
>
> And Afterall is possible through: at_exit

Yeah, I've had to resort to doing this, which makes the end of my  
env.rb look like this:

   #######################
   # Start everything up #
   #######################

   require 'support/service_controllers'

   # Note this relies on this file being loaded only once!

   ServiceControllers.stop_all
   ServiceControllers.start_all

   at_exit do
     ServiceControllers.stop_all
   end

I don't like this though, it's asymmetric.


> BeforeFeature sounds like it could be useful for preparing services  
> for that specific feature and you don't want them running for other  
> features. I guess currently  the only way of achieving this is  
> separating those features and running them in separate cucumber  
> runs. This is what I have done with something similar, using -- 
> profile to run different sets of features. I prefer this (in my  
> experience so far) as it allows me to re-use my rake tasks for  
> setting things up and keeps that setup from adding noise to my test  
> code. I appreciate with mock services your situation is slightly  
> different.

I see what you mean, but it's always useful to run all the features in  
one run.  'rake features' should be the unambiguous, authoritative  
decider of whether your code can go live (IMHO).

Ashley

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