Problems with namespaces inside World

[David García]

I wanted to use Cucumber + Capybara together with Calabash in a project where we test both an Android app and a web app. I'm having some problems because some methods loaded in the World have the same name. For instance, 'page' or 'click_button' are both defined in Calabash and Capybara, so if I do page.visit for capybara, the method from calabash is called. I understand that this setup is quite concrete, but I guess this can happen to other people that want to use different gems inside the World.

Is there any solution or workaround for that? I could use for instance Capybara.current_session.visit instead of simply 'visit', but given that the steps and helpers used for capybara and calabash are separated, I would like a cleaner solution, so Capybara modules cannot see methods from Calabash.

[Andrew Premdas]

On 27 October 2014 16:19, David García <david...@gmail.com> wrote:

I wanted to use Cucumber + Capybara together with Calabash in a project where we test both an Android app and a web app. I'm having some problems because some methods loaded in the World have the same name. For instance, 'page' or 'click_button' are both defined in Calabash and Capybara, so if I do page.visit for capybara, the method from calabash is called. I understand that this setup is quite concrete, but I guess this can happen to other people that want to use different gems inside the World.

Is there any solution or workaround for that? I could use for instance Capybara.current_session.visit instead of simply 'visit', but given that the steps and helpers used for capybara and calabash are separated, I would like a cleaner solution, so Capybara modules cannot see methods from Calabash.

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If you look at the -r option of cucumber you'll see you can control what you include in a particular run. Perhaps you could extract the capybara stuff from env.rb into something like support/capybara, do the same for calabash and then use cucumber.yml to create seperate profiles for each one. A limitation of this approach is that you won't be able to use both tools in the same session. Anyhow hope that helps

Andrew

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[David García]

Unfortunately that's the case, I need to use both in the same session

David

[Steve Tooke]

On 27 Oct 2014, at 20:02, David García <david...@gmail.com> wrote:

Unfortunately that's the case, I need to use both in the same session

I haven't used calabash, but for capybara you don't need to require 'capybara/cucumber' and include the DSL in the world. 

Something like this might give you an idea:

require 'capybara'

module WebHelper

  def web_driver

    @web_driver ||= Driver.new

  end

  class Driver

    include Capybara::DSL

     # write methods here to interact with web app

     def visit_home_page

        visit '/'

     end

     

     def page_title

        page.find('h1').text

     end

  end

end

World(WebHelper)

# or you can use web_driver.visit / 

# web_driver.page etc from step defs 

I haven't tested this explicitly, but tend to do something like this for most projects. I prefer to push code down into an automation layer like this as it is more reusable than step defs. 

Steve

-- typed on a device that autocorrects when I'm not looking. 

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[David García]

I've gave it a try, doing so for calabash instead of Capybara, but I found couple of problems:

- Calabash has some helpers which use cucumber methods (embed), and as the helpers are not in World, it can't access these methods

- Calabash provides some predefined steps, which can't access its methods because they are not in World.

I could do what you purposed for capybara, but this means that I have to do "webdriver." for every single method I want to call. I guess this is doable, but makes World kind of useless.

I'm trying to find a way to differenciate the how/where methods are called, so from World you could know which method you have to call, but I'm kind of stuck.

[Konstantin Trunin]

Have you found solution?