Question

I’m trying to create a cucumber scenario that checks to see if elements are loaded for an ‘edit posting’ page. My trouble, however, is that I don’t know how to create a path that will direct it to the page.

The general path is something like: /posting/id/edit
i.e. /posting/11/edit

Here is my posting.feature scenario

# Editing existing post 
Scenario: Saving the edits to an existing post
    Given I am logged in 
    Given there is a posting
    Given I am on the edit posting page
    When I fill in "posting_title" with "blah"
    And I fill in "posting_location" with "blegh"
    When I press "Update posting"
    Then I should see "Posting was successfully updated."

I dabbled around with some Factory Girl stuff, but I don’t have the knowledge to use it appropriately (if it offers a solution), and wasn’t able to find a relevant example.
I’ve also seen a lot of suggestions with regards to ‘Pickle’, but if possible I’d like to avoid that route to keep things simple seeing as I have very limited experience.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Is there a link on your website that would take someone to the edit page? Then you could do something like:

Given I am on the homepage
And I follow "Posts"
And I follow "Edit"

This assumes that there is a link on your homepage whose text is Posts, and then another one in the resulting page called Edit. This is the best way to accomplish this, because there should be a direct route to whatever page you are testing. Those steps are also provided in web_steps.rb

You could also make a custom step like you did there with Given I am on the edit posting page and the code would be something like:

Given /^I am on the edit posting page$/ do
    visit("/posting/11/edit")
end

Which you of course could also generalize like I am on the edit posting page for posting 11. But in general, cucumber tests are acceptance tests, which means not bypassing things like this. You should have a link to the edit page that can be clicked.