Erik on Rails

One of the Rails projects I’m working on can create subdomains.  In order to test this in Cucumber, I want to be able to write scenarios that look like this:

When I visit http://blingo.myapp.com
I should see "Welcome to blingo!"

Unfortunately, if you’re using Cucumber to test a Rails application, the visit method basically strips off the entire domain part of any urls you try to visit. The solution I found to this problem is to create a separate Mechanize session and use that for the outside urls. Here’s my updated visit step definition:

require "webrat/mechanize"
 
Given /^I visit (.*)$/ do |url|
  if url.match(/^http:\/\//)
    session = Webrat::MechanizeSession.new
    session.visit(url)
  else 
    visit url
  end
end

Tags: bdd, cucumber, mechanize, rails, webrat

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