[rspec-users] Rake features vs. cucumber features

[aslak hellesoy]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:42 PM, James Byrne <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> What exactly is the difference between these two invocations, beside the
> fact that one is a rake task and one loads and runs the gem directly?  I
> am getting a slew of errors when I run "# cucumber features" whereas "#
> rake features" passes all the tests.
>
> I have manually run "#rake db:test:prepare" but nonetheless I am getting
> an error regarding a "uninitialized constant Entity (NameError)."
>
> The features directory looks like this:
>
> features
> |-- entities
> |   |-- entity.feature
> |   `-- step_definitions
> |       `-- entity_steps.rb
> |-- locations
> |   `-- step_definitions
> |-- sites
> |   `-- step_definitions
> |-- step_definitions
> |   `-- webrat_steps.rb
> `-- support
>    `-- env.rb
>
> Is there something that I must add to the cucumber parameters when
> calling it directly to get this to work as I require? Like, maybe,
> requiring rails or some other library?
>

Short answer:
http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16211-cucumber/tickets/106--verbose-showing-loaded-files

When this is implemented it will be easier to diagnose and fix problems like
this. It will give you a hint about other --require options you might want
to add.

Cheers,
Aslak


>
> Features:
>
> Scenario: Record Entity basic identification information  #
> features/entities/entity.feature:12
>    Given I have a party to some business transaction       #
> features/entities/step_definitions/entity_steps.rb:7
>      uninitialized constant Entity (NameError)
>      ./features/entities/step_definitions/entity_steps.rb:8:in `Given
> /a party to some business transaction/'
>      features/entities/entity.feature:14:in `Given I have a party to
> some business transaction'
>
>
> Steps:
>
> Given /a party to some business transaction/ do
>  @party = Entity.new
> end
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