turkan wrote in post #961975: >> I hadn't heard of Steak before. A quick look at the rdoc makes me think >> it's basically an inferior version of Cucumber. :) It looks to me like >> the author of Steak kind of missed the point that the English-like >> syntax of Cucumber is usually an advantage. > > Usually is not always. And not in our case.
In what way not? I suspect that if you can't write your Cucumber stories in English, you're putting too much into them that should be in model specs... > >> > What are Cucumber tests then? >> >> A non-painful way to cover the same ground as integration tests. > > In my opinion (and by definition too ;-) are Cucumber tests > integration tests, or at least acceptance tests. Yes, they serve that purpose. They're not what Rails developers usually think of by hose terms, though. Sorry for the confusion. > > But back to the topic ... do you have a little example how you would > test an XHR request that responds with some JSON data by using > Cucumber? > A guess you are using Capybara too. How do you do the XHR request? I'm not using Capybara; I'm using Webrat. I would just make a request to the appropriate URL, and then test the returned JSON. Just like testing HTML. There's no reason to complicate it further. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org Sent from my iPhone -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
