00:47 <philly-mac> Hi, I am using cucumber with sinatra/capybara. I noticed that when I use it with rails there is a generator that produces a whole load of useful web steps for you. Is there such a generic thing to produce these steps for use with other frameworks, just to get you started?

03:24 <robholland> morning all

03:36 <aslakhellesoy> robholland: morning

04:22 <BobFunk> hey

04:23 <BobFunk> having some problems with cucumber and rails 3

04:24 <BobFunk> getting an "uninitialized constant ActionDispatch::Integration::Session::Test"

04:24 <BobFunk> when trying to run the features

04:32 <aslakhellesoy> BobFunk: did you use the generator to set up your project?

04:33 <BobFunk> yeah - script/rails g skeleton

04:33 <aslakhellesoy> can you gist a trace?

04:33 <BobFunk> sure

04:34 <BobFunk> http://gist.github.com/333830

04:35 <BobFunk> just had a coworker install the bundle and do the script/rails g skeleton on another laptop with the same result

04:35 <aslakhellesoy> BobFunk: I think maybe you need to add Test::Unit as a gem

04:35 <BobFunk> gonna try that

04:37 <BobFunk> ok -seems doing require 'test/unit/testcase' in the test environment seems to get us further

04:43 <aslakhellesoy> BobFunk: Do you think Rails should be doing that require in the file where you get the uninitialized constant error?

04:44 <aslakhellesoy> I think that would be a better fix TBH

04:44 <BobFunk> yeah - it does sound like rails should handle that dependency

04:45 <BobFunk> it's strange - it actually worked with jruby without the require 'test/unit/testcase'

04:45 <BobFunk> was when trying to run the features in c ruby that it started breaking

04:45 <BobFunk> anyway - now the features run in both jruby and ruby - but it seems like I'm running into a problem with sessions

04:46 <BobFunk> gonna make sure - but it seems like the session cookie is not being updated

04:47 <BobFunk> trying to get some facebook connect features to pass - and I can see from the test.log that the controller is setting the user_id in the session but after following the redirect it seems to be gone

04:48 <aslakhellesoy> BobFunk: it would be great if you sent rails a patch for this.

04:51 <BobFunk> first trying to replicate this session issue with something simpler than facebook connect

04:56 <aslakhellesoy> BobFunk: sounds like you're having to unrelated issues

04:58 <aslakhellesoy> s/to/two

05:17 <BobFunk> yeah - seems unrelated

05:36 <BobFunk> got a patch ready for rails requiring 'test/unit/assertions' from action_dispatch/test/integration

05:36 <BobFunk> does lighthouse have any way to search for existing tickets beyond the tags?

05:37 <BobFunk> ahh - found it

05:37 <antifuchs> hi there. I'm trying to make a custom formatter for cucumber (0.6.2), but whenever I try to run my test suite with it, cucumber doesn't execute any steps; the formatter's methods are called with step.status = :undefined

05:37 <BobFunk> seems I had to create a profile to see it

05:37 <antifuchs> what's going on there?

05:39 <BobFunk> ok - seems a require is not the solution - it seems to be a bundler related problem in reality

05:39 <BobFunk> https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/4171-fresh-rails-3-app-cannot-run-performance-tests

05:39 <BobFunk> sounds like the same issue

05:41 <antifuchs> forget that, I found out what's wrong; the problem is with ci_reporter, not with my formatter implementation.

05:54 <BobFunk> ok - need someone to review my one line patch: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/4190-uninitialized-constant-actiondispatchintegrationsessiontest

06:36 <malesca_> Submitting a GET form with Cucumber, the submitted params don't actually seem to be in the URL. So with request.request_uri and request.path_parameters, I don't see them. But they are in "params". So probably GETs are faked? Breaks some stuff.

06:59 <robholland> Anyone else annoyed by the current cucuber textmate bundle which causes textmate to think it's not saved features?

07:33 <danlucraft> robholland: my coworker is very annoyed by that

07:34 <robholland> Glad it's not just me

07:34 <robholland> Ah, there is an open issue

08:17 <BobFunk> considering using http://github.com/roman/rots for and openid feature

08:17 <BobFunk> is there a good way with anotations or something to skip some tests by default

08:18 <BobFunk> the server has to be running for these tests to work - and it can be a bit annoying if it has to start up when running unrelated features

08:19 <oc> BobFunk: tags are OK

08:20 <oc> http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/tags

08:21 <BobFunk> looks like it - are there any way to tell cucumber to always skip a specific tag unless you specify it at the command line?

08:21 <robholland> Yes, using profiles

08:21 <oc> in your profile

08:21 <oc> http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/cucumberyml

08:21 <BobFunk> ahh - cool

08:21 <BobFunk> seems like just what I need :)

08:22 <BobFunk> thanks

08:22 <oc> i.e. slow_integration_tests: --tags @slow --tags @integration

08:54 <cap10morgan> I tried running the profile format listed here http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/cucumberyml and here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1265659/profiling-a-cucumber-test-ruby-rails (as described by Aslak) but in the current stable version 0.6.3 it is crapping out. Was this feature removed?

08:57 <msassak> cap10morgan those links describe different things--are you trying to run cucumber with profiles, or are you trying to profile your cucumber tests?

08:58 <cap10morgan> msassak: I'm just trying to get a profile report on my slow running features

09:00 <msassak> ahh okay

09:01 <msassak> i'm not sure if there is a built-in profiler, actually

09:19 <oc> aslak will probably be online in 5 minutes

09:27 <oc> firewall

09:37 <mfaeh> Which engine is the recommended one for testing js with cucumber?

09:38 <mfaeh> Selenium, other?

09:39 <msassak> mfaeh there isn't anything official

09:40 <mfaeh> Ok, which works best from your experience?

09:40 <msassak> mfaeh well i have had luck with capybara and culerity, but ymmv

09:41 <mfaeh> Ok, thanks we'll try that.

10:27 <Sid_> Hi there, my step definition files are not being found by cucumber on my work iMac but they work normally on my macbook which suggests some soft of problem outside of the application. Has anyone here had a similar problem?

10:29 <altogether> Sid_: cucumber version same?

10:31 <Sid_> no, iMac has cucumber rails 0.3.0. the macbook has 0.2.4

10:31 <Sid_> I'll try the older version of cukes-rails

10:54 <BobFunk> anyway to get capybara to not follow redirects?

10:55 <BobFunk> testing openid authentication and when my servers sends the redirect to the openid server Capybara tries to follow it but while treating the absolute url as a relative url

11:21 <miwillhite> I'm getting the following error when I try to run my features…not sure if I have everything setup correctly: super: no superclass method `requirement'

11:21 <miwillhite> I created a cucumber entry in my database.yml

11:22 <miwillhite> <- brand new to cucumber

11:22 <miwillhite> Any ideas?

12:48 <fields__> what's the right way to call a rake task from inside a cucumber test?

12:49 <fields__> (I'm testing the task itself)

13:23 <bcardarella> Why does Cucumber print green for when Scenario Outlines fail?

13:23 <bcardarella> the dots are green

15:00 <aslakhellesoy> evening

15:06 <aslakhellesoy> robholland: re TextMate - see the tracker

15:06 <aslakhellesoy> leaving files unsaved is annoying - and fixed

15:07 <aslakhellesoy> mabes: hi mate

15:07 <aslakhellesoy> saw your comment about Scenario Outline in the TM bundle

15:07 <robholland> aslakhellesoy: I saw, it's fixed now

15:07 <aslakhellesoy> It's still highlighted - I just simplified how

15:08 <aslakhellesoy> the TM bundle can think of Scenario and Scenario Outline as the same thing - it just needs to know all the keywords, which it does now.

15:09 <aslakhellesoy> bad connection here.

15:09 <mabes> aslakhellesoy: okay- good to know. thanks

15:09 <aslakhellesoy> thanks for merging

15:10 <mabes> yeah, I just merged some stuff in from Tim as well.. the shortcut for "align table cells" is different. Apparently the one that we were using was conflicting with a global OSx shortcut

15:10 <aslakhellesoy> mabes: Still want me to help find a heir

15:11 <mabes> aslakhellesoy: sure- I could post to the list if you want me to

15:11 <aslakhellesoy> Sure, or I can do it.

15:11 <mabes> Yeah, I'll do it now

15:12 <aslakhellesoy> In order to make someone take it over you need carrots and whips :-)

15:12 <aslakhellesoy> carrot = you'll be a hero

15:12 <aslakhellesoy> whip = if you don't the thing will die

15:13 <aslakhellesoy> i'm still in the (slow) process of redoing the website, and my goal is to give good visiility to core tools and their maintainers.

15:13 <aslakhellesoy> (that's the carrot)

15:14 <mabes> ahh, I see

15:17 <mabes> aslakhellesoy: stay or leave- make up your mind! :)

15:17 <aslakhellesoy> mabes: i'm in a quiet pub - i'll stay. they have good beer.

15:17 <aslakhellesoy> and a naive neighbour it seems

15:18 <mabes> heh

16:05 <GitHub199> cucumber: 07treetop-behaves_like_gherkin 03aslakhellesoy * f4c7640 (3 files in 2 dirs): I made most things lazy, so we can plug in a treetop gherkin builder (but i broke one feature - not sure how to fix that). good enough for now. Jeeez this AST is crufty as hell - can't wait to get rid of this shit. - http://bit.ly/bHOOiF

16:07 <josephwilk> Awesomeness!

16:27 <mattwynne> aslakhellesoy: you working gherkin into the old AST?

16:28 <aslakhellesoy> mattwynne: yes

16:28 <mattwynne> how come? have you given up on the gherkin AST as too big a step?

16:28 <aslakhellesoy> we were biting over too much on the gherkin branch

16:28 <mattwynne> good call

16:29 <aslakhellesoy> so i'm making treetop behave like the gherkin parser

16:29 <aslakhellesoy> then dropping it in will be fairly simple

16:30 <aslakhellesoy> we'll still have the old crufty ast, but it lets us do one thing at a time and reduce the number of moving parts

16:30 <mattwynne> good good good

16:30 <aslakhellesoy> the ast is shit!

16:30 <aslakhellesoy> references back and forth and ugly ifs all over the place

16:30 <josephwilk> I liked that commit comment :)

16:31 <aslakhellesoy> that's what you get when you take patches from 200 people i guess :-)

16:31 <aslakhellesoy> josephwilk: hehe. not quite there yet, but not too far either.

16:32 <aslakhellesoy> it _feels_ achievable at least

16:32 <mattwynne> it will be much easier to kill it slowly though. that big step into the gherkin AST was scary.

16:32 <mattwynne> right

16:32 <mattwynne> and the old formatters will still work

16:32 <mattwynne> phew

16:33 <aslakhellesoy> take a look at the html formatter

16:33 <aslakhellesoy> i must have been asleep when i merged in that code.

16:34 <aslakhellesoy> or some other kind of inconsciousness

16:34 <mattwynne> ha

16:35 <mattwynne> yeah we can make it much easier to write formatters with what we were doing with the Gherkin AST

16:35 <mattwynne> but one step at a time, eh?

16:35 <mattwynne> in a week or two I'll be free to pair on this from time to time

16:35 <aslakhellesoy> mattwynne: but we also have another big fish to fry wink wink

16:35 <mattwynne> right now I am up to my elbows in painting and decorating

16:36 <mattwynne> wink wink

16:37 <aslakhellesoy> got a rolling rr yet?

16:37 <josephwilk> Hows Scotland treating you mattwynne?

16:37 <mattwynne> josephwilk: it's lovely up here

16:37 <mattwynne> little bit of snow on the hills around us

16:37 <mattwynne> our builder went skiing in Aviemore at the weekend

16:37 <mattwynne> the central heating is on

16:38 <mattwynne> the drains will get connected tomorrow I hope

16:38 <josephwilk> Good stuff!

16:38 <aslakhellesoy> sounds great matt

16:38 <mattwynne> aslakhellesoy: I intend to hold onto my English accent. But I'm coming to terms with the fact that my son will sound like a Scotsman

16:39 <robholland> night all

16:39 <aslakhellesoy> night robholland

16:39 <josephwilk> Night robholland

16:40 <mattwynne> #cucumber: like the waltons

16:40 <aslakhellesoy> mattwynne: we still need a scottish gherkin translation

16:40 <josephwilk> We could present it in a lightning talk at Scotland Ruby conf!

16:43 <mattwynne> Hoots mon: I am logged into my account

16:55 <aslakhellesoy> by folks

16:55 <aslakhellesoy> bye!

17:02 <rgoytacaz> Hey guys

17:02 <rgoytacaz> I just updated cucumber, through gem update

17:02 <rgoytacaz> it installed cucumber 3.0(previous was 2.4)

17:03 <rgoytacaz> now when I do cucumber from my rails app

17:03 <rgoytacaz> it just says faiFailing Scenarios:

17:03 <rgoytacaz> cucumber features/manage_stores.feature:5 # Scenario: Display Store List

17:03 <rgoytacaz> cucumber features/manage_stores.feature:13 # Scenario: Create a valid Store

17:03 <rgoytacaz> was working before.

17:03 <rgoytacaz> how do I trace this?

17:14 <rgoytacaz> ?!

17:16 <mattwynne> rgoytacaz: can you copy / paste the output into a gist?

17:30 <rgoytacaz> out is just that

17:30 <rgoytacaz> output*

17:30 <rgoytacaz> its all it says

17:31 <rgoytacaz> no other error messages...

17:31 <rgoytacaz> thats why I'm here =/

17:31 <rgoytacaz> http://www.pastie.org/873004

17:33 <rgoytacaz> is there some option that I could use to trace the error?

17:36 <mattwynne> rgoytacaz: --backtrace will give you a full stack trace

17:37 <yak_> Hi, I am having trouble getting cucumber to run tests, can someone help me?

17:37 <rgoytacaz> ah thx :)

17:37 <mattwynne> rgoytacaz: try the pretty formatter too - it looks like you're using the progress one at the moment, yes?

17:38 <rgoytacaz> mattwynne: I'm just typing cucumber

17:38 <rgoytacaz> never used any options.

17:38 <mattwynne> rgoytacaz: right. try cucumber --backtrace -f pretty

17:40 <rgoytacaz> K,problem was that the db had been dropped..

17:40 <rgoytacaz> thx guys =) noob stuf

17:40 <yak_> I'm trying to run tests but currently seeing "no such file to load -- test/ (MissingSourceFile)"

17:41 <yak_> With cucumber 6.3, rails 2.3.4

17:41 <rgoytacaz> How do you guys deal with increasing validations on models after there are a number of tests on that model already?

17:41 <rgoytacaz> that will break this tests

17:41 <rgoytacaz> factories?

17:44 <mattwynne> rgoytacaz: you're talking unit tests, right?

17:44 <mattwynne> I usually get them to use the same method to create a valid object, then cripple it for the specific test

17:44 <mattwynne> user = create_valid_user

17:44 <mattwynne> user.username = ''

17:45 <mattwynne> user.should_not be_valid

17:45 <mattwynne> so then if the validation rules change, I just have to change the implementation of create_valid_user

17:45 <mattwynne> works most of the time

17:45 <yak_> Does anyone know what could be causing "no such file to load -- test/ (MissingSourceFile)"?

17:48 <yak_> Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling various gems with no luck

17:51 <mattwynne> yak_: tried --backtrace to see what's calling it?

17:52 <yak_> no such file to load -- test/ (MissingSourceFile) /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `polyglot_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/polyglot-0.3.0/lib/polyglot.rb:65:in `require'....

17:52 <yak_> theres more, want it all?

17:54 <mattwynne> yak_: I was hoping that would allow you to figure it out for yourself :)

17:54 <mattwynne> you could paste it into a gist though if you like

17:54 <yak_> actually this was due it looks like to a line in the rails/world.rb file, which id found somewhere b/c it was complaining it didnt exist

17:55 <yak_> Now I am hanging on undefined method `allow_rescue=' for ActionController::Base:Class (NoMethodError) /Users/yakovrabinovich/Starstreet/starstreet/features/support/env.rb:34 /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `polyglot_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/polyglot-0.3.0/lib/polyglot.rb:65:in `require'

17:55 <mattwynne> yak_: http://gist.github.com

17:57 <yak_> Looks like I got it working by commenting out a line in world.rb and ActionController::Base.allow_rescue = false in env.rb... is this ok?

17:59 <mattwynne> yak_: good. not sure why allow_rescue would give you an undefined method. Did they move it in a rails upgrade maybe?

17:59 <mattwynne> gtg

17:59 <mattwynne> night all

18:53 <textarcana> /join #org-mode

18:53 <textarcana> oops