[LRUG] Managing processes from cucumber

[Sam Livingston-Gray]

Coincidentally, I've been pondering a similar question for an internal gem
I've been working on this week.  (We want to spin up a fresh Kafka server
so one botched test run doesn't leave state hanging around for subsequent
runs.)  We're using Aruba, but I didn't notice childprocess when I was
going through it.  Thanks, Andrew, for the pointer!  John, I'm glad you
asked, too!  :)
-Sam


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:43 AM, John Cinnamond <jc at panagile.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 18 July 2014 15:23, John Cinnamond <jc at panagile.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Lruggers
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a gem to manage starting/stopping/interacting with
>>> processes from cucumber? I want to write features along the lines of:
>>>
>>>     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"
>>>
>>> Where the gem can starts & stops processes and redirect stdio.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>> All best
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
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