Rake features vs. cucumber features

What exactly is the difference between these two invocations, beside the
fact that one is a rake task and one loads and runs the gem directly? I
am getting a slew of errors when I run “# cucumber features” whereas “#
rake features” passes all the tests.

I have manually run “#rake db:test:prepare” but nonetheless I am getting
an error regarding a “uninitialized constant Entity (NameError).”

The features directory looks like this:

features
|-- entities
| |-- entity.feature
| -- step_definitions |– entity_steps.rb
|-- locations
| -- step_definitions |-- sites |– step_definitions
|-- step_definitions
| -- webrat_steps.rb– support
`-- env.rb

Is there something that I must add to the cucumber parameters when
calling it directly to get this to work as I require? Like, maybe,
requiring rails or some other library?

Features:

Scenario: Record Entity basic identification information #
features/entities/entity.feature:12
Given I have a party to some business transaction #
features/entities/step_definitions/entity_steps.rb:7
uninitialized constant Entity (NameError)
./features/entities/step_definitions/entity_steps.rb:8:in Given /a party to some business transaction/' features/entities/entity.feature:14:inGiven I have a party to
some business transaction’

Steps:

Given /a party to some business transaction/ do
@party = Entity.new
end

I suspect your rails environment isn’t being explicitly loaded by any
code inside the features folder. When you run a rake task, that all
happens anyway, so Entity will be a known type etc.

Did you generate env.rb using the cucumber generator script? If not
run one inside an empty rails app and take a look at it.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:42 PM, James B. [email protected]
wrote:

features
-- support – env.rb

Is there something that I must add to the cucumber parameters when
calling it directly to get this to work as I require? Like, maybe,
requiring rails or some other library?

Short answer:
http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16211-cucumber/tickets/106--verbose-showing-loaded-files

When this is implemented it will be easier to diagnose and fix problems
like
this. It will give you a hint about other --require options you might
want
to add.

Cheers,
Aslak

aslak hellesoy wrote:

When this is implemented it will be easier to diagnose and fix problems
like this. It will give you a hint about other --require options you
might want to add.

Cheers,
Aslak

Thank you. I have add my heartfelt thanks for your work on cucumber. I
tried to wrap my head around rspec/stories when they first appeared late
last summer and I never really did grasp how to use them. Cucumber has
simply transformed the way I now see things in BDD.

I the meantime, could somebody provide me with a hint or two on what I
should pass cucumber with the -r option to get the same effect as rake
features? I have tried, without success, multiple variations on the
essence of the following:

cucumber features -r config/environment lib/cucumber/rails/world

Maybe

cucumber features -r features

2008/11/26 James B. [email protected]:

Andrew P. wrote:

Maybe

cucumber features -r features

YES!!!

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:56 PM, James B. [email protected]
wrote:

Thank you. I have add my heartfelt thanks for your work on cucumber. I
tried to wrap my head around rspec/stories when they first appeared late
last summer and I never really did grasp how to use them. Cucumber has
simply transformed the way I now see things in BDD.

Thanks man. I appreciate it. I owe a lot to Dan N. who did JBehave
then
RBehave then RSpec Stories which is where the ideas were born. I only
improved the implementation and added some sugar coating. Seems like
sugar
coating is what’s needed to make things fly hehe.

Plus now there are 51 forks and I have merged in contribs from some 30
people thanks to GitHub. This would never have grown so fast in a
centralised SCM like Subversion.

I the meantime, could somebody provide me with a hint or two on what I
should pass cucumber with the -r option to get the same effect as rake
features? I have tried, without success, multiple variations on the
essence of the following:

cucumber features -r config/environment lib/cucumber/rails/world

Until we have a better way to display --verbose - I’d try to sprinkle
some
puts statements in the cli.rb class to see what gets loaded when you run
via
rake - and try to mimic that from the cucumber command line.

HTH,
Aslak