Articles on cucumber

Jared Carroll

Jared Carroll

Beginning Outside-In Rails Development with Cucumber and RSpec

The RSpec Book defines outside-in Rails development as starting with views and working your way in toward the models. By developing from the outside in, you are always taking a client perspective at each layer of the application. The end result is an absolute minimum implementation, consisting of simple, expressive interfaces. Outside-in development doesn’t require

Jared Carroll

Jared Carroll

Modern Cucumber and Rails: No More Training Wheels

Last month, cucumber-rails 1.1 was released. This release removed web_steps.rb, a collection of step definitions for interacting with a web app. For months, web_steps.rb contained a warning of its negative effects on feature maintenance. Like most developers, I ignored the warning. During a recent upgrade of an existing Rails app, I realized it was now