On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Joseph Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Then /I should see "(.*)" in the page/ do |text| >> >> That should raise an AmbiguousStep error if you also have /I should >> see "(.*)"/. > > Oops sorry, thanks for spotting that David. > > It seems that it would be good practice to use $ and ^ in all your > regular expression steps in order to minimise surprise conflicts. > > You can still use non-regular expression steps in Cucumber: > >>Then "I should see '$value' in the page" do |value| > > This issue does make me think about the regular expressions to step > matching. > > My intuition would be that if a regular expression did not consume all > the tokens of a step string then it would not be a match for the step > (even though it would be in the regular expression domain). What do > people think? > > I've been unable to think of a good example where I would want only a > partial match of a step. Throwing away the unmatched characters. Does > anyone have good examples where they would?
I think you've got this right and exposed a bug. Wanna report it to lighthouse and/or fix it? Thanks, David > > Joseph Wilk > -- > http://www.joesniff.co.uk > > > David Chelimsky wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Joseph Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>>> Then /I should see "(.*)" in the page/ do |text| >> >> That should raise an AmbiguousStep error if you also have /I should >> see "(.*)"/. What I've been doing is stuff like ... >> >> Then /the list of (.*) should incude "(.*)"/ >> >> ... in order to differentiate. I'll say that I do allow this to impose >> html element IDs: >> >> Then /the list of (.*) should incude "(.*)"/ do |list_of, text| >> list_id = list_of.downcase.replace(' ','-') >> response.should have_tag("ul##{list_id}") do >> with_tag("li",text) >> end >> end >> >> But this one step covers a lot of cases for me. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> David > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
