MacksMind

I’ve been using Cucumber and Webrat for only a couple months now. Today I needed something new and it wasn’t obvious how to make it work.
Here’s an example of a test in Cucumber:

Given I am Sam
When I follow “Foo”
Then the “Bar” field should contain “Baz”

Which relies on Webrat:

Then /^the “([^"]*)” field should contain “([^"]*)”$/ do [...]

Can’t get there from here
In one of my Ruby on Rails projects, I have a model validation which is dependent on attributes from a belongs_to parent. Normally, you can refer to a parent model as child.parent and access the parent’s attributes as child.parent.attr. The difficulty arises when the parent object is unsaved. Let’s look at [...]