We've deprecated FactoryGirl's step definitions; now's the perfect time to write better steps!

Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps

We've deprecated FactoryGirl's step definitions; now's the perfect time to write better steps!

June 25, 2012 Tagged: factory girl cucumber testing four-phase test direct model access training wheels Comments (View) Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We’re Deprecating FactoryGirl’s Cucumber Steps For almost three years now, FactoryGirl has provided developers using Cucumber a handful of step definitions that make it easy to create records in the database. Here are a few examples: Given a post exists with a title of "Blog post about FactoryGirl" Given 5 posts exist Given the following posts exist: | title | author | | FactoryGirl is great! | email: [email protected] | | Ruby is wonderful! | email: [email protected] | While these steps are very easy to use, it requires a large amount of knowledge about each model in the step definitions. Your steps now know about the model name (Post ), its title attribute, one of its associations (author ), author has an e...

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@alindeman » 02 Jul '12, 1pm
YES! Cucumber is a great tool, and needs more of this: "[...] Why We’re Deprecating FactoryGirl’s Cucumber Steps" [link]
@juanpabloaj » 26 Jun '12, 2am
Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps [link] @alejandrollanos
@ezotrank » 25 Jun '12, 7pm
First remove web_steps.rb, then factory_girl steps... I don't understand... [link] [link] #cucumber
@karmajunkie » 25 Jun '12, 3pm
happy to read this [link]
@johan__ » 25 Jun '12, 3pm
Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps [link] via @zite
@adarshp » 25 Jun '12, 1pm
“@thoughtbot: It’s our duty to urge developers to write better software with the help of better tests." +1 [link]”
@hnfirehose » 25 Jun '12, 1pm
Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps: [link]
@joshuaclayton » 25 Jun '12, 1pm
RT @thoughtbot: We've deprecated FactoryGirl's step definitions; now's the perfect time to write better steps! [link]
@thoughtbot » 25 Jun '12, 1pm
We've deprecated FactoryGirl's step definitions; now's the perfect time to write better steps! [link]
@planetonrails » 25 Jun '12, 3pm
Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps [link]
@PursueMobile » 25 Jun '12, 2pm
Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps [link]
@alessio_rocco » 25 Jun '12, 2pm
RT @thoughtbot: We've deprecated FactoryGirl's step definitions; now's the perfect time to write better steps! [link]
@iFrankZA » 25 Jun '12, 1pm
RT @thoughtbot: We've deprecated FactoryGirl's step definitions; now's the perfect time to write better steps! [link]

Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps

We've deprecated FactoryGirl's step definitions; now's the perfect time to write better steps!

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