Does Webrat require that the web application be written in Ruby/Rails?
I’d like to try it for writing tests against an ASP.NET web application.
Does Webrat require that the web application be written in Ruby/Rails? I’d like to
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Does Webrat require that the web application be written in Ruby/Rails?
I’d like to try it for writing tests against an ASP.NET web application.
You can use webrat for any application, not just Rails. What you do is to use Cucumber + Webrat + Mechanize adapter. This combination makes ordinary HTTP requests against your web application.
In fact, for the moment, i’m working on a simple smoketest that tests a website portal and can verify that everything is up and running in different environments. (localhost, test env, staging, production).
Have a look in Cucumbers’ source. There is an example in the folder:
cucumber/examples/webrat/
What you do is to tell Webrat to use the Mechanize adapter. Now you have a headless browser that can access any application regardless of the framework it uses.
Note that if you need full javascript support, you probably want something else (Watir,Firewatir, Selenium, etc).