From: Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-06-09T03:42:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Use of capybara outside of any application

chloé r. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Well, including module in module is a bit tricky. I think what you want 
> to do here is an extend, not an include.
> 
> include will put methods for instances of the class. Module's instances 
> don't exist, I don't think that's what you want to do.
> 
> On the other hand, extend will add methods in the singleton class of the 
> class (or here, the module) so that methods are accessible by the class 
> itself (or here, the module itself). So I guess you need to do this 
> instead :
> 
> module JustTestIt
>   extend Capybara::DSL
>   def self.run
>     visit '/'
>   end
> end
> 
> Hope it helped !

Oh, yes, indeed! Dumb move, thinking include worked with module; I
*know* about extend!

Anyway, that did the trick, exactly. Thank you!



> 
> tamouse mailing lists wrote in post #1111653:
> > 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?
> 
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