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Kelp

Kelp is a collection of helpers that makes it easier to write step definitions for Cucumber. The Kelp gem is hosted on Rubygems, so you can install it with:

$ gem install kelp

The name "Kelp" is a contraction of "Cuke Helpers". It was chosen because it's short, easy to remember, and is in keeping with the theme of greenish plants. Kelp is licensed under the MIT License.

Documentation is available on rdoc.info. Please use the issue tracker to report any bugs or feature requests. Visit the #kelp channel on irc.freenode.net to chat.

Usage

To use Kelp's helpers in your Cucumber step definitions, simply require the helper module you're interested in:

require 'kelp/visibility'

Then add the relevant modules to Cucumber's World:

World(Kelp::Visibility)

Many of the provided helpers are designed to make it easier to do things you might otherwise be tempted to do with nested step definitions. For example, if you need to verify the presence of several text strings on a webpage, you might have a step definition like this:

Then /^I should see the login page$/ do
  Then %{I should see "Welcome"}
  And %{I should see "Thanks for visiting"}
  And %{I should see "Login"}
end

Using the provided helper method should_see, you can do this instead:

Then /^I should see the login page$/ do
  should_see "Welcome"
  should_see "Thanks for visiting"
  should_see "Login"
end

Or even this:

Then /^I should see the login page$/ do
  should_see [
    "Welcome",
    "Thanks for visiting",
    "Login"
  ]
end

Many of the provided methods are similar to their counterparts in the Cucumber-Rails generated step definitions. Following links, filling in fields, and pressing buttons can all be easily done with Ruby code instead of nested steps. Thus this:

When %{I follow "Login"}
And %{I fill in "Username" with "skroob"}
And %{I fill in "Password" with "12345"}
And %{I press "Log me in"}

translates to this:

follow "Login"
fill_in_fields \
  "Username" => "skroob",
  "Password" => "12345"
press "Log me in"

Several methods also accept keywords to define the scope of an action. For instance, if you want to look within an element with id="greeting"`, do:

should_see "Welcome", :within => "#greeting"

At the moment, the :within keyword is the only accepted scope; the locator you pass to this should be in whatever format your Capybara.default_selector is set to. Other keywords like :before or :after may be supported in future revisions.

See the kelp documentation. for more information.

Rails generator

Kelp provides a generator for Rails 2.x projects, which writes step definitions to features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb. This file provides all of the same step definitions normally provided by cucumber-rails, with several enhancements. If you have made customizations to your web_steps.rb, they will be overwritten! Consider yourself warned.

To generate web_steps.rb, simply run:

$ script/generate kelp

Note: If you are upgrading from a version of Kelp prior to 0.1.9, you should remove kelp_steps.rb from your features/step_definitions directory; these are obsolete, and conflict with the newer step definitions in web_steps.rb.

A Rails 3.x generator is not currently provided. Contributions are welcome!

Development

If you'd like to hack on Kelp, first fork the repository, then clone your fork:

$ git clone git://github.com/your_username/kelp.git

Install bundler:

$ gem install bundler

Then install Kelp's dependencies:

$ cd /path/to/kelp
$ bundle install

It's a good idea to use RVM with a new gemset to keep things tidy.

If you make changes that you'd like to share, push them into your Kelp fork, then submit a pull request.

Testing

Kelp comes with a Rakefile, so you can run the RSpec tests and generate an rcov coverage report via:

$ rake spec

This will write an HTML report to coverage/index.html. Finally, there are some Cucumber self-tests included, mainly for testing the web_steps.rb file used by the Rails generator. Run via:

$ rake cucumber

This self-test includes high-level scenarios that exercise more detailed scenarios in examples/sinatra_app/features, ensuring that the generated step definitions perform as expected.

Future plans

  • Generator for Rails 3
  • Support Webrat

Copyright

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2010 Eric Pierce

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.