Running Cucumber within nw.js

[Murray Hopkins]

Hi. I am trying to write an app in nw.js for running Cucumber tests.

I am using the node version of cucumber and nw.js v28 on Win7 pro.

I can get Cucumber to work by using execFile.

var command = 'node_modules/.bin/cucumber-js';
if (NWK.OS == 'win') { command += '.cmd'; }
var cukeExe = path.join(command);


eg execFile(cukeExe, [feature, '-f', 'json:' + toJsonFile, '-f', 'snippets:' + snippetFile, '--world-parameters', paramStr], function (error, stdout, stderr){ }

This works fine to run the standard Maths simple feature examples.

The problem is, of course, that since Cucumber is running in a child process I don't have access to the main process so cant set a World that has access to the main app. Well, at least as far as I understand it that is true.

I am probably missing something obvious here. Has anyone managed to get Cucumber running using node require() in nw.js?

Or even via a script tag in the browser context?

Cucumber syntax seems to change regularly so many of the blog posts are out of date / have wrong syntax which makes it really hard to work out.

Are there any other libraries that people have used that can use Gherkin?

Thanks,

Murray