[LRUG] Managing processes from cucumber

[John Cinnamond]

Thanks guys - I'll look at aruba and child process. I'm glad I asked now :-)


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Andrew Premdas <apremdas at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 18 July 2014 15:23, John Cinnamond <jc at panagile.com> wrote:
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>> Hello Lruggers
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>> Does anyone know of a gem to manage starting/stopping/interacting with
>> processes from cucumber? I want to write features along the lines of:
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>>     Given some_process is running
>>         And my fake_third_party_service is running
>>         And some_other_process is stopped
>>     When I make a request
>>         And I start some_other_process
>>     Then I see a message on the fake third party server
>>         And the output from some_other_process is "OK"
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>> Where the gem can starts & stops processes and redirect stdio.
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>> I have written something similar on a project to do full end-to-end
>> testing of a RESTful API service. Before I tidy it up and gem-ify it I want
>> to make sure that there isn't something similar out there that I could
>> use/contribute to. I tried searching for gems with 'cucumber' in the name
>> and looking on The Ruby Toolbox but couldn't find anything, although I
>> could have missed it.
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>> Thanks,
>> John
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> If you look at the gemspec for aruba you will see it uses the child
> process gem to do stuff which is similar to what you are doing.
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> All best
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> Andrew
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