Deprecation notice

Do not use this sample. It's a reference on why page objects will burn your house. Gauge recommends not using page objects. Refer https://github.com/getgauge-examples/ruby-selenium and our blog

Gauge example project, in Ruby

This project serves as an example for writing Automation using Gauge

This project uses

• Capypage, that gives you neat helpers to define your Page Objects.
• Capybara, as a dependency of Capypage
• Test::Unit for assertions
• Snap CI has been setup to run the Gauge Specs from this project.

Concepts covered

• Use Webdriver as base of implementation
• Concepts

• Specification, Scenario and Step
• Table parameters
• Using External datasource (special param)

Prerequisites

• Java 1.7 or above. [Required to bring up the SUT]
• Install Gauge
  • Homebrew on Mac OS X :

    brew install gauge
    

  • Download Installer
• Install Gauge-Ruby plugin by running
  

  gauge install ruby
  

• Chromedriver, for Capybara to interact with Chrome. Make sure that the Chrome driver executable is available in your PATH.

Setting up the System Under Test (SUT)

• Download activeadmin-demo.war
• Bring up the SUT by executing the below command

java -jar activeadmin-demo.war

• The SUT should now be available at http://localhost:8080

Executing specs

Set up

This project requires bundler to install dependencies, bundler can be installed by running

gem install bundler

To install dependencies run :

bundle install

All specs

bundle exec gauge run specs

This will also compile all the supporting code implementations.

Copyright

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