Steven, That's pretty cool. I hadn't seen that before, but that seems like a fantastic approach if you were in the position of using a LOT of selectors. My solution wouldn't scale to that extent. I find, in most cases, that I never have to resort to using selectors more than a handful of times, so my solution is a quick way to DRY that up.
If there was reason to target specific areas of the page all the time (because of ambiguity or because you want to be particularly specific) I could see Gizmo doing the trick nicely. Thanks for sharing! Bo On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Steven Holloway <impur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bodaniel, > > Ealier this year my colleague (Luke Cunningham) presented at RORO melbourne > in a gem we built (mostly by Luke) here at realestate.com.au. Its called > gizmo and it's prime motivation is to DRY up cucumber steps. > > gem install gizmo > > see here http://github.com/icaruswings/gizmo/wiki/Cucumber > > We found this to be an invaluable approach to handling large cucumber > suites. > > Have a look at the examples and see what you think. > > The work is based on upon some seeds planted by Thoughtworks consultants > last year. > > Most of this was done pre capybara so the both approaches can be blended to > harness the power of each. > > Thought you might find this interesting. > > Cheers > Steven > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Bodaniel Jeanes <m...@bjeanes.com> wrote: > >> Hey roro-ers, >> >> I've been on this idea for a blog post and the code behind it for about 7 >> or 8 months and finally got the motivation last night to type it up so I >> thought I'd share it. >> >> It's about why you should be keeping CSS and XPath selectors out of your >> Cucumber scenarios and how you can do so easily (with some code). >> >> I'd love your feedback and I'm sure plenty of you have similar solutions >> to this or similar problems. >> >> http://bjeanes.com/2010/09/19/selector-free-cucumber-scenarios >> >> -- >> [image: Bodaniel Jeanes] >> >> *Bodaniel Jeanes* [image: LinkedIn] >> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjeanes>[image: >> Twitter] <http://twitter.com/bjeanes>[image: Tungle.me] >> <http://tungle.me/bjeanes>[image: >> Blog] <http://bjeanes.com> >> Whttp://bjeanes.com e...@bjeanes.comt+61412639224 >> [image: Google Talk] [image: MSN] [image: Google Wave] m...@bjeanes.com >> [image: >> Skype][image: AIM] bojeanes >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rails-oceania%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rails-oceania%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- [image: Bodaniel Jeanes] *Bodaniel Jeanes* [image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjeanes>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/bjeanes>[image: Tungle.me] <http://tungle.me/bjeanes>[image: Blog] <http://bjeanes.com> Whttp://bjeanes.com e...@bjeanes.comt+61412639224 [image: Google Talk] [image: MSN] [image: Google Wave] m...@bjeanes.com [image: Skype][image: AIM] bojeanes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
