Question

I’ve created a custom cucumber step for checking the destination for a link, and I’m using Cucumber’s new built in support in web_steps for scoping these lookups. So I have two cucumber steps involved:

# My step to verify the link
Then /^"([^\"]*)" should link to (.*)$/ do |link_text,page_name|
  page.should have_link(link_text, :href => path_to(page_name))
end

# Cucumber's built in step to scope things
# Single-line step scoper
When /^(.*) within ([^:]+)$/ do |step, parent|
  with_scope(parent) { When step }
end

I use this by having cucumber scripts that do things like

And "home" should link to the home page within the "Email Signature" section

My problem is that I’m getting ambiguous matches on the above between these two steps, because the ‘within’ clause can’t be told apart from the “the home page”, because the latter doesn’t have any bounding quotes.

I’ve tried changing the link step to read like this, thinking it might resolve the ambiguity by not matching the ‘within’, but I think the ‘within’ gets swallowed by the preceeding group instead:

Then /^"([^\"]*)" should link to (.*)(?!within)$/ do |link_text,page_name|
  page.should have_link(link_text, :href => path_to(page_name))
end

Any thoughts on how to resolve this?

Answer 1

Try something like:

/^"([^"]*)" should link to ((?:(?!within).)+)$/

Don’t know anything about Cucumber, I’m just going by what you tried to do.