Question

I am using Cheezy’s PageObject to setup some cucumber tests. I have everything pretty much setup like Jeff Morgan’s book “Cucumber & Cheese”.

Right now I have a page object “PublishPage” setup that has a method that sets a variable @tag. For example I have in the file publish_page.rb

Class PublishPage
  def tag
  #some steps left out
  @tag = "123"
  end

  def verify_tag
  #some steps left out
  @tag.should include "2"
  end
end

In the Cucumber steps, for one of the steps i have on_page(PublishPage).tag, and then in another step i have on_page(PublishPage).verify_tag. In my env.rb file I have require 'rspec-expectations'.

The problem is that when I run this code I get an error that says undefined method 'include' for #<PublishPage:xxxxxx>. But if I move the code inside the verify_tag method into the steps everything works except it does not have access to @tag…

Answer 1

This should be as simple as adding

include RSpec::Matchers

to your page object.

The other alternative would be to expose @tag through some method and then in your Cucumber step say something like

on_page(PublishPage).the_displayed_tag.should include("2")