From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-06-08T04:59:17+09:00
Subject: Use of capybara outside of any application

I'm trying to set up a cucumber/capybara test suite that I can use
outside of my rails app to drive testing from the outside in.

I've been reading through the capy README and thought I understood
this, but apparently I'm just missing something fundamental.

I am starting with just this simple file:

tamara@monovular Test/cukecapytest$ cat justtestit.rb
require 'capybara'
require 'capybara/dsl'
Capybara.default_driver = :selenium
Capybara.current_driver = :selenium
Capybara.run_server = false
Capybara.app_host = "http://www.google.com"
module JustTestIt
  include Capybara::DSL
  def self.run
    visit '/'
  end
end

JustTestIt.run
tamara@monovular Test/cukecapytest$ ruby justtestit.rb
justtestit.rb:10:in `run': undefined method `visit' for
JustTestIt:Module (NoMethodError)
from justtestit.rb:14:in `<main>'

I thought doing the include would bring in the methods. When I do the
include and visit without the module warpper, I get a warning about
including Capybara::DSL in the global context, BUT, the visit works in
that case.

tamara@monovular Test/cukecapytest$ cat justtestitnomod.rb
require 'capybara'
require 'capybara/dsl'
Capybara.default_driver = :selenium
Capybara.current_driver = :selenium
Capybara.run_server = false
Capybara.app_host = "http://www.google.com"
include Capybara::DSL
def run
  visit '/'
end
run
tamara@monovular Test/cukecapytest$ ruby justtestitnomod.rb
including Capybara::DSL in the global scope is not recommended!

and it brings up a browser, goes to http://www.google.com/ as expected.

So there is something here I'm just not getting (not a capybara
problem, but a basic understanding of how the mixin works??)

halp?