Tutorials and Related Blog Posts

Here is a list of Cucumber related blog posts/tutorials. Please keep in mind that blogs can become dated quickly with a fast moving project like Cucumber. Cucumber’s RDocs and wiki should be considered the canonical documentation source with the, hopefully, most up to date information. Some blog posts may refer to the RSpec Story Runner but they still provide value since Cucumber started out as a rewrite of that project.

Please add any helpful blog posts that you have found or written about all things Cucumber.

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"Using Cucumber with Sketchup":http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog/archives/001714.htmlRich Morin explores designing 3D models with Cucumber|Nov 03 2009| |"Using Cucumber as a scripting language":http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/2009/11/01/using-cucumber-as-a-scripting-language/|Lindsay Holmwood explores using Cucumber for general sysadmin scripting tasks|Nov 1 2009| |"Testing Couchapps with Cucumber and Culerity":http://upstream-berlin.com/2009/10/25/testing-couchapps-with-cucumber-and-culerity/|CouchDB and CouchApp goodness|Oct 25 2009| |"How-to: Use Cucumber with .NET and C# under IronRuby":http://blog.webintellix.com/2009/10/how-to-use-cucumber-with-net-and-c.html|A short introduction|Oct 14 2009| |"Getting started with Cucumber, RSpec, Webrat and multiruby":http://blog.jcoglan.com/2009/10/03/getting-started-with-cucumber-rspec-webrat-and-multiruby/|Nice step-by step introduction to Cucumber using Google and Webrat+Mechanize by James Coglan| Oct 3 2009| |"Rails: RSpec, Cucumber, Authlogic, and factory_girl":http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2009/07/rails-rspec-cucumber-authlogic-and.html|Shannon -jj Behrens explains how to get RSpec, Cucumber, Authlogic, and factory_girl to all play nicely together|July 17 2009| |"Rails: Cucumber, Authlogic, and Machinist":http://hasmanyfollows.com/2009/09/06/getting-cucumber-authlogic-and-machinist-to-play-together/|How to get Cucumber, Authlogic, and Machinist to work together|Sept 6 2009| |"15 Expert Tips for Using Cucumber":http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/15-expert-tips-for-using-cucumber/|BDD/TDD guru "Dave Astels":http://blog.daveastels.com/ shares great Cucumber practices|Aug 5 2009| |"Rails: Dynamic 404s, authlogic, Cucumber, and rescue_from":http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2009/08/rails-dynamic-404s-authlogic-cucumber.html|Shannon -jj Berens explains how to get dynamic 404s, authlogic, Cucumber, and rescue_from to all play nicely together|Aug 13 2009| |"Slides: Cucumber meets iPhone":http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/8073|"Ian Dees":http://www.ian.dees.name/ is at OSCON showing off a kick-ass way to test iPhone apps|Jul 22 2009| |"TwitterAuth Integration Testing":http://blog.zerosum.org/2009/7/13/twitter-auth-integration-testing|Nick Plante explains how to test integration with "Twitter's OAuth":http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ using Cucumber| Jul 13 2009| |"Slides: Cucumbered":http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/futureruby-talk-cucumbered.html|"Joseph Wilk":http://blog.josephwilk.net talking about Cucumber at "FutureRuby":http://futureruby.com/ with an IPhone example |Jul 12 2009| |"Screencast: Testing Flex Apps with Cucumber":http://onrails.org/articles/2009/07/08/screencast-testing-flex-apps-with-cucumber|Get your hands dirty with Flex, FunFX and Cucumber|Jul 08 2009| |"Integration test with Cucumber and Webrat":http://www.slideshare.net/gugod/integration-test-with-cucumber-and-webrat|Presentation in Chinese by Kang-min Liu|Jul 1 2009| |"Natural Language Acceptance Testing with Cucumber":http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Natural-Language-Acceptance-Testing.html&Itemid=29|A nice little writeup in "Dr.Dobbs CodeTalk":http://dobbscodetalk.com/| Jun 27 2009| |"Introduction to BDD with Cucumber":http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/cucumber-introduction/|Great little introduction|Jun 23 2009| |"Cucumber and Celerity":http://drogomir.com/blog/2009/6/16/cucumber-and-celerity-testing-unobtrusive-javascript|Testing unobtrusive Javascript|Jun 16 2009| |"Adding XHTML output validation to Cucumber stories":http://swedishcampground.com/adding-xhtml-output-validation-to-cucumber-stories| Use "Easy Markup Validation":http://tenderlovemaking.com/2009/06/12/easy-markup-validation/ with Cucumber | Jun 16 2009 | |"Cucumber and IronRuby: It runs!":http://hotgazpacho.org/2009/06/cucumber-and-ironruby-it-runs/|William Green shares updated adventures with Cucumber on .NET|Jun 14 2009| |"The return of the Cucumber":http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2009/06/the-return-of-the-cucumber/|Noel Rappin shares some thoughts on style|Jun 12 2009| |"Webrat: Automated Acceptance Testing with RSpec or Cucumber":http://www.agileweboperations.com/webrat-automated-acceptance-testing-with-rspec-or-cucumber/|Side by side comparison of Cucumber and RSpec (in RedMine!)|Jun 11 2009| |"Cucumber Rocks - But it’s not a replacement for unit tests":http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2009/06/cucumber-rocks-but-its-not-a-replacement-for-unit-tests/|Don't put all your eggs in the Cucumber basket!|Jun 10 2009| |"Cucumber, Webrat ... Who Names These Things?":http://blog.geekdaily.org/2009/06/cucumber-webrat-who-names-these-things.html|Nice little diagram explaining how Cucumber relates to RSpec, Webrat and Selenium|Jun 10 2009| |"Testing Rake tasks with Cucumber":http://www.frykt.no/posts/1-2009-6-7-testing-rake-tasks-with-cucumber|Simple example on how to test rake tasks in Rails|Jun 07 2009| |"Cucumber scenarios that depend on Sphinx":http://opensoul.org/2009/6/1/cucumber-scenarios-that-depend-on-sphinx|How to use Cucumber with "ThinkingSphinx":http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/|Jun 01 2009| |"Mind the gap":http://content.yudu.com/Library/A15ltd/TestMarch2009/resources/28.htm|Joseph Wilk's article in European Software Tester magazine|May 21 2009| |"What's Mining: Cucumber support":http://blogs.jetbrains.com/ruby/2009/05/what’s-mining-cucumber-support|The JetBrains RubyMine team is working on Cucumber support|May 13 2009| |"Rails Test Prescriptions":http://www.railsrx.com|E-book on Rails testing -- free version contains long Cucumber tutorial|May 10 2009| |"New project: Gutkumber":http://danlucraft.com/blog/2009/05/new-project-gutkumber-integration-testing-for-ruby-gnome2/|Integration testing for Ruby-GNOME2|May 10 2009| |"Aslak's Slides from RailsConf 09":http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7722|You can get the audio "here":http://blip.tv/file/2079353| May 06 2009 | |"Cucumber is hot technology at developer event":http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/cucumber-hot-technology-developer-event-447| InfoWorld interview with Aslak Hellesøy| May 06 2009 | |"More on Cucumber":http://asciicasts.com/episodes/159-more-on-cucumber| How to use tables and tags. | May 03 2009| |"Using Cucumber to test Erlang Servers":http://blog.wolfman.com/articles/2009/5/2/using-cucumber-to-test-erlang-servers| Cucumber, JRuby, JInterface and more | May 2 2009 | |"Try adding Cucumber to Watir":http://www.rudyonrails.com/blog/?p=278|Cucumber+Watir tutorial | Apr 17 2009 | |"Building a better World":http://drnicwilliams.com/2009/04/15/cucumber-building-a-better-world-object/| Dr. Nic explains the Cucumber World and how to upgrade to 0.3.0 | Apr 15 2009 | |"20 articles on Cucumber and a free beverage recipe!":http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2009/04/09/20-articles-on-cucumber-and-a-free-beverage-recipe|20 awesome links| Apr 9 2009| |"Cucumber On JRuby inside Eclipse":http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2009/04/10/cucumber-on-jruby-inside-eclipse.html| Allows RCP based apps to be tested with Cucumber|Apr 10 2009| |"Capistrano recipes with cucumber":http://pivotallabs.com/users/jdean/blog/articles/763-testing-capistrano-recipes-with-cucumber| Jeff's Blog @ Pivotal labs |Apr 5 2009 | |"What? NetBeans 6.5.1 Can Now Recognize My Cucumber .feature Files!":http://www.pmamediagroup.com/2009/04/what-netbeans-651-can-now-recognize-my-cucumber-feature-files/| Cucumber + Netbeans plugin| Apr 2 2009| |"Outside-in Development with Cucumber and RSpec":http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/outside-in-development-with-cucumber-and-rspec.html | Joseph Wilk's slides from "Scotland on Rails":http://scotlandonrails.com/schedule/27-march/working-outside-in-with-cucumber-and-rspec/ | Mar 30 2009 | |"BDD Step-by-Step Example - part 2":http://www.ozmox.com/2009/03/29/bdd-step-by-step-example-part-2-refactor/ |Nicholas’ Blog | Mar 29 2009| |"BDD Step-by-Step Example - part 1":http://www.ozmox.com/2009/03/29/bdd-step-by-step-example-part-1/ | Nicholas’ Blog | Mar 29 2009 | |"Testing outbound emails Cucumber":http://drnicwilliams.com/2009/03/26/testing-outbound-emails-with-cucumber/|Emails....| Mar 26 2009 | |"Using Cucumber for Acceptance Testing":http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2009/03/using-cucumber-for-acceptance-testing | Using Cucumber for Acceptance Testing | Mar 20 2009 | |"Slides from Outside-In Development with Cucumber":http://www.benmabey.com/2009/03/14/slides-from-outside-in-development-with-cucumber/| Ben Mabey's slides from "MWRC presentation":http://mwrc2009.confreaks.com/14-mar-2009-15-00-bdd-with-cucumber-ben-mabey.html| Mar 14 2009 | |"Story Driven Development Recipes with Cucumber":http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/03/bdd-with-cucumber | Not detailed, but nice to be on InfoQ :-) | Mar 03 2009 | |"Using Cucumber with Machinist":http://themomorohoax.com/2009/03/08/rails-machinist-tutorial-machinist-with-cucumber-in-10-minutes | A basic tutorial for people starting out. Explains how to use machinist instead of fixtures with cucumber. | Mar 08 2009 | |"Testing Dash metrics with Cucumber":http://bradley.is/post/82649218/testing-dash-metrics-with-cucumber | Using Cucumber to test metrics | Mar 01 2009 | |"Cucumber metrics with Dash":http://bradley.is/post/82409348/cucumber-metrics-with-dash | Gathering progress metrics with Dash | Feb 28 2009 | |"Web app integration testing for sysadmins with cucumber-nagios":http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/2009/02/23/web-app-integration-testing-for-sysadmins-with-cucumber-nagios/|Monitor web sites with Cucumber| Feb 23 2009 | |"Mixing Cucumber with Test::Unit/Shoulda":http://giantrobots.thoughtbot.com/2009/2/20/mixing-cucumber-with-test-unit|Title says it all| Feb 20 2009 | |"Using Cucumber to Integrate Distributed Systems and Test Messaging":http://www.benmabey.com/2009/02/17/using-cucumber-to-integrate-distributed-systems-and-test-messaging/| Testing asynchronous messaging | Feb 17 2009| |"Integration testing SSL with Cucumber":http://devcaffeine.com/2009/02/16/integration-testing-ssl-with-cucumber/|How to test SSL in Rails| Feb 16 2009| |"Getting started with Cucumber and Sinatra":http://tooky.github.com/2009/02/05/getting-started-with-cucumber-and-sinatra.html | Sinatra loves Cucumbers | Feb 05 2009 | |"Leveraging Test Data Builders in Cucumber Steps":http://www.benmabey.com/2009/02/05/leveraging-test-data-builders-in-cucumber-steps/| Step definitions for creating objects from step tables.| Feb 5 2009 | |"iPhone GUI testing":http://www.ian.dees.name/tech/iphone-gui-testing.html| Cucumber meets the iPhone | Feb 2 2009 | |"Ruby-GNOME2 testing":http://www.daniellucraft.com/blog/2009/03/testing-ruby-gnome2-with-cucumber/| Testing Ruby-GNOME2 applications with Cucumber | March 8 2009 | |"Cucumber step definition tip: Stubbing time":http://www.brynary.com/2009/2/3/cucumber-step-definition-tip-stubbing-time| RSpec stubs in Cucumber| Feb 2 2009 | |"One Smart Cucumber":http://joshuahoover.com/2009/01/28/one-smart-cucumber/|Business value|Jan 28 2009| |"Testing with the help of machinist, forgery, cucumber, webrat and rspec":http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au/?p=30|Using test data with Cucumber in a Rails app|Jan 7 2009| |"rails 2 day 4: rcov and more behavior-driven development":http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2008/12/rails-2-day-4-rcov-and-more-behavior-driven-development| Cucumber+RCov Tutorial|Dec 29 2008| |"rails 2 day 3: behavior-driven development":http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2008/12/rails-2-day-3-behavior-driven-development/| Tutorial of basic Cucumber usage and workflow.|Dec 22 2008| |"Feature Injection and handling technical stories":http://lizkeogh.com/2008/09/10/feature-injection-and-handling-technical-stories/| Explains how to phrase technical stories and focus on business value in all types of stories.| Sept 10 2008| |"Telling a good story - Rspec stories from the trenches":http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/telling-a-good-story-rspec-stories-from-the-trenches.html| Discussion of common pitfalls when writing plain-text stories/features.| Aug 5 2008| |"Imperative Vs Declarative Scenarios in User Stories":http://www.benmabey.com/2008/05/19/imperative-vs-declarative-scenarios-in-user-stories/| Discussion about trade-offs of different scenario writing styles.| May 19 2008 | |"rspec plain text stories + webrat = chunky bacon!":http://www.benmabey.com/2008/02/04/rspec-plain-text-stories-webrat-chunky-bacon/| Motivation and tutorial for webrat in features.| Feb 4 2008 | |"What's in a Story?":http://dannorth.net/whats-in-a-story| Dan North's first post about writing stories.|Feb 11 2007|