Question

Having a problem with making this work. Seems it has been a problem for others and I think I have followed all of the advice.

I’ve set up a stripped down rails 3 .0.14 app to just include cucumber-rails & factory_girl_rails but still no go. I expect I am doing something silly!

Running the cuc test below produces the following:

Scenario: test factory-girl        # features/users.feature:3
  Given the following user exists: # features/users.feature:4
    | name    | email               |
    | Brandon | [e-mail] |
    Undefined step: "the following user exists:" (Cucumber::Undefined)

The user factory has been created, of which I am sure, with a bit of ‘pp’ output.
Would really appreciate any help to get this sorted.

Ross

Set up

env.rb: snippet

require 'pp'
require 'cucumber/rails'

require 'factory_girl_rails'
require 'factory_girl/step_definitions'

features/support/factories.rb:

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :user do
    name 'Adam Advertiser'
    email '[e-mail]'still
  end   
end
pp FactoryGirl.create(:user)

Cucumber features/user.feature:

Feature: a
  Scenario: test factory-girl
    Given the following user exists:
    | name    | email               |
    | Brandon | [e-mail] |

Answer 1

The problem here is that you have to get your factory required before requiring ‘factory_girl/step_definitions’, because there is meta-programming in step_definitions which needs to know about your factory. You could explicitly require the factories.rb in the env.rb, but that will end up producing a duplicate definition error, as cucumber will re-require factories.rb.

You need to remove the requiring of step_definitions from the env.rb – that will make it happen too early – and put it at the bottom of factories.rb, or else create a wrapper which requires first the factories (which will need to reside somewhere that cucumber doesn’t automatically require) and then the step_definitions.