Cucumber - How to enable a disabled field

Testing RSpec
1

Is there way in Cucumber to enable a field or submit button that was
disabled by default (:disable => true). I have a submit button which is
enabled using javascript and would like to test the page using Cucumber.

Thanks for your advice,
Tom

2

You have to go through the browser, using something like selenium
(which can be driven by cucumber)

Pat

3

Pat M. wrote:

You have to go through the browser, using something like selenium
(which can be driven by cucumber)

Pat

Since I only have this one little widget on the page, I was hoping to
avoid selenium for now, but alas. Will give it a go.

Thanks for your thoughts.
Tom

4

I would highly recommend you take a look at Celerity
(http://celerity.rubyforge.org/) as well.

The Culerity gem has made it easy to run Celerity (using jruby)
alongside your normal ruby app.

http://upstream-berlin.com/2009/01/28/culerity-full-stack-rails-testing-with-cucumber-and-celerity/

Since Celerity does not use a GUI it tends to be much faster than
Selenium.

–
Joseph W.

5

Joseph W. wrote:

I would highly recommend you take a look at Celerity
(http://celerity.rubyforge.org/) as well.

Celerity (and Culerity) look great, but after trying for a half a day, I
could not get jruby to build, so could not install Celerity, so I am
back to Selenium.

I followed the instructions here:

but when I try to run: ant clean jar

I get: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/classpath/Configuration

and at that point, gave up.

If you could offer help, I would appreciate it and would try again. I am
running this on ubuntu 8.041 in VMWARE (within Vista)

java -version returns
java version “1.6.0_0”
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_0-b11)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 1.6.0_0-b11, mixed mode, sharing)

All the best,
Tom