Question

I’m reading the Rails 3 In Action book and they introduce some BDD with Cucumber. I have noticed that the web_steps.rb file has been deleted Modern Cucumber and Rails. I’ve added my own web steps regex and that is working as expected. However it seems the file paths.rb has been removed too. It used to contain a module NavigationHelpers where you could include code like:

def path_to(page_name)  
    case page_name  
    when /the homepage/  
      root_path  
    when /the list of articles/  
      articles_path  
    else  
      raise "Can't find mapping from \"#{page_name}\" to a path."  
    end  
  end 

And then you could do things like:

Given /^(?:|I )am on (.+)$/ do |page_name|
  visit path_to(page_name)
end

in your steps.

I’ve tried adding a file called paths.rb under features/support with that module, but I keep getting an undefined path_to method error. So my question is:

How do you deal with this in Cucumber 1.1.4? What’s the appropriate way to define this kind of methods/modules?

Answer 1

Make sure you have

World(NavigationHelpers)

at the bottom of the file. It will make the module methods available in all your step definitions.