Question

I’m doing integration testing of record creation with Cucumber. My feature looks like this:

When I go to the create album page      
And I fill in the following:
| Album Title               | Great Album   |
| Record Label              | Decca         |
| Catalog Number            | 778-B127      |
| Number of Discs           | 2             |
| Release Year              | 2002          |
| Internal Catalog Number   | CD 1662       |
And I press "Add Album"     
Then I should see "Great Album was added to the library."

The thing is, an Album belongs_to a Composer. This association is created/selected on the new album page using a drop-down list that is populated with the records of existing Composers. What’s the best way to test this association? I’d prefer to do it in my Cucumber table, but is that not possible? Do I need to use a factory (or other mechanism) to create this Composer and then add something like

| Composer                 | Tallis, Thomas|

to my table?

Answer 1

i think you could accomplish what you want in a similar fashion

add these steps to your scenario

Given composers "Tallis, Thomas" exist
When I go to the create album page
...
And I select "Tallis" from "album_composers"

the step

Given /^composers "([^\']*)" exist$/ do |composers|
  composers.split(", ").each do |composer|
    Composer.find_or_create_by_name(composer)
    # alternatively, using factory_girl 
    # Factory(:composer, :name => composer)
  end
end