Comments on: Just Add a Dash of Include to Your Spinach

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:42:38 +0000

I haven’t checked out Spinach that much but I do like to use World a lot in Cucumber for sharing modules. For instance we use an autocomplete widget let’s say widgetThingA and so I wrote a module that would allow you do interact with it. The gross logic sat in that module.

When we switched to widgetThingB lately I changed it in one place and no steps changed. It’s responsibility principle baby!

As for your issue with Cucumber sharing stuff, I think you just end up doing some sniffing inside your steps and then making calls out to the appropriate modules.

In our case though we don’t have very many ‘fill in form’ type steps, they’re more ‘create a thing’ which means you end up with very little overlap. Creating ThingA and ThingB are typically different.

Have you tried writing more declarative steps? I’ve found way less overlap between steps and it tends to be much cleaner overall. If this won’t work then I’d lean toward steps that do the appropriate context discovery and then inject/utilise whichever module you wish.

Nice one though! :)

By: Dan Galipo

Dan Galipo — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:28:40 +0000

Nice catch Steve :) I have updated the post to fix that typo.

By: narkoz

narkoz — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:16:59 +0000

Recently we at GitLab switched from Cucumber to Spinach, too.
Here is a summary: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/pull/1426

We are more than happy with the transition.

By: Steve Klabnik

Steve Klabnik — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:40:29 +0000

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By: Steve Klabnik

Steve Klabnik — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:40:10 +0000

How you can include SharedPaths, SharedForms, etc. when your modules is called SharedPath, SharedForm?

I’ll be happy to inspect it closer if you put code to github, tho.