Getting Autotest to work with Cucumber

Question

I'm trying to setup autotest to work with cucumber but despite following the tutorials it always finishes with:

0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors

I see from this blog post that I need to add something: http://monket.net/blog/2009/06/simple-example-of-autotest-cucumber-and-growl/

AUTOFEATURE=true

I wasn't sure where to add that so I tried the config/environment.rb file, and also the /config/environments/development.rb and test.rb file but it made no difference.

Anyone know how I can get autotest to run the cucumber tests? Right now I have no rspec tests, I'm starting with just cucumber.

Thanks

I also tried running 'AUTOFEATURE=true autotest' but that made no difference. — AnApprentice, Mar 14 '11 at 22:11
Correction, if I run 'AUTOFEATURE=true autospec' it does seem to work. First it shows that it could not run test via growl, then a few moments later it seems to run the cucumber tests. Is that normal? — AnApprentice, Mar 14 '11 at 22:13
Also tried adding the following to my test.rb env file: ENV['AUTOFEATURE'] = 'true' ENV['RSPEC'] = 'true' — AnApprentice, Mar 14 '11 at 22:22

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 14 '11 at 22:43

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You can add AUTOFEATURE=true to autotest command when you fire the latter up. That'll run your specs first and cucumber tests second.

Be careful, though, as running cucumber as part of the autotest stuff will slow down the runtime considerably, especially if the browser it fires up is firefox.

answered Mar 14 '11 at 22:43

Srdjan Pejic

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But I always want cucumber to be tested as that's all I'm using right now? – AnApprentice Mar 15 '11 at 00:27
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From the horse's mouth (https://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/wiki/Autotest-Integration): If you always want to have the plugin run then you can export the variable in your .bash_profile or other shell file like so: POSIX shell: $ export AUTOFEATURE=true – Srdjan Pejic Mar 15 '11 at 18:04

Getting Autotest to work with Cucumber

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