Question

I have the following table in an application I am developing using ruby on rails:

I want to create a test in cucumber where I select a user from the table and delete it or edit it.

I don’t know what is the step definition for that.

I’d like to be able to do something like:

Feature: User Manegement
         In order to manage users
         As an admin 
         I want to see a users list and change user properties

Background:
Given the following activated users exists
  | name         | email                    | 
  | Alice Hunter | [e-mail] |
  | Bob Hunter   | [e-mail]   |
And the following user records
  | name     | email                    | 
  | Jonh Doe | [e-mail]     |

    Scenario: I delete a user from the table
      Given I am logged in as admin
      When I follow "Administration"
      And I follow "User Management"
      And I delete "Alice Hunter"
      Then I should not see "Alice Hunter"`

Can anyone help?
Thank you.

@brad

The error returned:

  wrong number of arguments (2 for 1) (ArgumentError)
  ./features/step_definitions/table_steps.rb:26:in `within'
  ./features/step_definitions/table_steps.rb:26:in `/^I delete "(.*)"$/'

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Answer 1

After some extensive searching and minor refactoring, I managed to solve the problem.

I have used the following step:

When /^as admin I (press|follow|check|uncheck|choose) "([^\"]*)" for (.*) whose (.*) is "([^\"]*)"$/ do |action, whatyouclick, class_name, var_name, value|
  unless var_name == "id" then
    id = eval("\"#{class_name}\".classify.constantize.find_by_#{var_name}(\"#{value}\").id.to_s")
  else
    id = value
  end
  within("tr[id=as_admin__#{class_name}-list-#{id}-row]") do
    case action
      when "press"
        click_button(whatyouclick)
      when "follow"
        click_link(whatyouclick)
      when "check"
        check(whatyouclick)
      when "uncheck"
        uncheck(whatyouclick)
      when "choose"
        uncheck(whatyouclick)
    end
  end
end

I am also insterested in webrat’s RDoc, but everything I find seems out of order.