How to Setup Cucumber with Ruby

                                                     

_{1.Ruby 1.9.3 Download and install the following version in separate root directory.}

  _{Last Stable Version: Ruby 1.9.3-p545:}

  _{http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/ruby-1.9.3-p545-i386-amingw32.7z?direct}

_{Verification:}

 _{C:\Ruby193:>ruby –v}

_{In case of successful installation, it will show the installed version of the ruby on the system as below:}

_{2.Ruby Dev Kit Download & Installation For Windows 7 -64 Bit}

  _{https://github.com/downloads/oneclick/rubyinstaller/DevKit-tdm-32-4.5.2-20111229-1559-sfx.exe}

_{Steps To configure RDK After Download:}

_{1.:>ruby dk.rb init}

_{2.:>ruby dk.rb install}

_{Verification:}

_{Open the Config.yml file(under the RDK installed directory) and verify the current installed version of the ruby at the bottom of the document.}

_{3.Cucumber Installation & verification:}

_{C:\Ruby193:>gem install cucumber}

_{:>gem install rspec (rspec is not mandatory, but it is required in test assertions in cucumber at many places)}

_{4.Ansicon.exe Installation-For command prompt color output}

   _{https://github.com/adoxa/ansicon}

  _{(also follow the additional instructions in the above link)}

  _{Verification:}

 _{After Ansicon installation, go to command prompt and type}

 _{:>cucumber –help}

 _{:>cucumber test.feature (it should be name of any valid feature file from within project folder)}

 _{In case of successful installation, it will show the help information.}

 _{It will show the tests as passed in green colour after execution.}

_{5.RubyMine IDE 6.3.3. Download and Installation}

   _{http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/download/}

_{During installation: make sure to check the 3 options which is for creating shortcuts and adding references to the environment Path.}

_{6.Capybara Installation For Web Test Automation}

_{:>gem install capybara}

_{:>gem install selenium-webdriver}

_{For details Refer: https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara}

_{Verification:}

_{1. Open any cucumber feature file and right click and run. It should show the steps as passed after execution in green colour.}

Few Learnings:

_{1.Make sure to create a separate project directory. Inside it create the Features directory and inside it keep the step_definitions folder as follows:}

      _{CucumberProject->features->step_definitions.}

_{2.keep a track of installed components/gems versions on your system while installing or use a gem called Bundler along with gemfile for dependency management.To avoid confusion at later stages.}

_{:>gem install bundler}

_{3.To see the current list with versions of installed gems on your system , type following command at prompt:}

_{:> gem list --local}

_{4. Install the debugger gem for easy debugging while coding/testing in Rubymine IDE by following command:}

_{:>gem ruby-debug19 (Please keep the 19 after the debug as the older version of debugger does not support ruby 1.9X versions. )}