07:08 <xanderbeedle> Hi everyone, simple question - what's a good way to run an 'edit page' feature?

07:08 <xanderbeedle> I'm checking that I'm on the show page, and following the edit link

07:09 <xanderbeedle> but then I get involved with various IDs and things like that

07:09 <xanderbeedle> and I'm not sure how to integrate that in

07:13 <ashley_moran> xanderbeedle: what do you mean by "various ids"?

07:13 <xanderbeedle> Well, i can't just go to an edit page, to create a path that works I need to specify a page id

07:14 <xanderbeedle> and if that page is being created as a 'Given' step, can I pass back the ID from there?

07:14 <ashley_moran> xanderbeedle: i see what you mean now, there are various options

07:14 <xanderbeedle> Do you see what I mean? When dealing with specific items, the steps need to pass information around to each other

07:14 <xanderbeedle> or am I doing that wrong?

07:15 <ashley_moran> you can name the item in such a way that you can navigate back to it, eg "Given a blog post 'my post'"...

07:15 <ashley_moran> you could do "When I visit the post 'my post'"

07:15 <ashley_moran> and have the step click links

07:16 <ashley_moran> another way would be to scrape the url of the created resource and store it in an instance variable in a step

07:16 <ashley_moran> the Given step could eg store `@post_urls['my post'] = ...`

07:17 <ashley_moran> or store the id

07:17 <ashley_moran> or you could access the database and use routing to generate the route

07:17 <xanderbeedle> may try that

07:17 <xanderbeedle> http://pastie.org/813428

07:17 <xanderbeedle> is a pastie of my scenario, to explain with some code

07:18 <ashley_moran> i don't understand your comment there though

07:18 <ashley_moran> first you do...

07:18 <ashley_moran> When I follow "Edit this question"

07:18 <ashley_moran> but you say "This is where I am unsure how to navigate properly to the page?" after you've navigated there

07:18 <xanderbeedle> Not navigate sorry, but check that I am on that correct page

07:21 <ashley_moran> do you mean in the case where you want to extend it to "Then I should be on the question_edit page for question 'q1'" ?

07:21 <xanderbeedle> yea

07:21 <ashley_moran> i usually do that with content, rather than URLs, eg check for "Edit question" and "q1"

07:21 <xanderbeedle> fair enough, thanks

07:22 <xanderbeedle> just trying to work out the 'golden path'

07:22 <ashley_moran> np

12:33 <xanderbeedle> Hi again

12:34 <xanderbeedle> While I understand exceptions should obviously be handled away from the user, how do you catch them in cucumber?

12:42 <xanderbeedle> the problem seems to be a case of the exception being generated 1 step before my 'should raise_error' check

12:42 <xanderbeedle> is there a good way to handle this?

12:55 <dgs> can you catch it in the step it's being raised in ?

14:09 <mef_> any way I can run cucumber in some sort of verbose mode? it seems to be freezing while connecting to spork and I'm not sure why

14:10 <mef_> and I have to kill -9 it :/