What We Just Learned

Cucumber-Rails integrates Cucumber with Rails.

• We installed Cucumber-Rails in our Rails project by running the cucumber:install generator. This created several files that wire up Cucumber to run scenarios against our Rails application.

• We wrote a feature about displaying data without creating any user interface to enter it. Being able to prioritize features this way makes us flexible—we are not dictated by a strict implementation order.

• We saw how we can use FactoryGirl to populate our database in Given steps.

• We saw how we can access our web interface using Capybara’s visit method.

Now that you have learned how to set up Cucumber in a Rails application, it’s time to learn more about the full workflow. In the next chapter, you’ll learn more as we add Ajax behavior to Squeaker.