Sometimes you inherit a non Rails or non Rack based web app such as PHP, Perl, Java / JEE, etc. I like using cucumber for functional testing so I put together this project structure to use as a starting point for testing non Ruby web based applications.

I’ve included a simple search.feature examples that uses Google. To switch to use your own development or staging server adjust the URL in features/support/env.rb. I have this example project setup to use Capybara with Webdriver (Selenium) but you can easily switch this to use Culerity or Webrat by editing features/support/env.rb.

Pull requests with updates/enhancements/bug fixes are always welcome!

• features/*.feature : cucumber features

• features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb : generic steps that apply to all features

• features/step_definintions/_steps.rb : steps specific to an individual feature file

• support/env.rb : configures the driver and the hostname to use

• Ruby www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

• Ruby Gems rubygems.org/

• Bundler: sudo gem install bundler rake

• sudo bundle install

• To run all features: rake

• To run a specific feature: cucumber features/search.feature

• To debug a specific step call save_and_open_page within the step

• cukes.info (for general cucumber information)

• github.com/jnicklas/capybara (for actions such as click_link, click_button, etc…)

• Cucumber mailing list for the project structure

• Todd Huss