Question

I just get started using BDD in Rails application, but I’m not sure what are best practices and workflows? And what other things that I really need for testing for my project such as step definitions, controllers, models, and views? Do I need to test all of those?

Answer 1

I generally think of Cucumber as a way to do integration testing on your application. Combined with Webrat, you can test user workflows, views and so on in a great way. For unit tests, you’ll want to go down to a lower level and test your models just with rspec. You may also want to do some functional tests on the controllers, and I probably wouldn’t use Cucumber for that either.

Here are a couple of videos:

• http://confreaks.com/videos/72-mwrc2009-bdd-with-cucumber
• http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/rspec-and-cucumber.html