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Roman Podolski
Roman Podolski

Reputation: 329

Adding a class in a module to Cucumber World

Given I have defined the following modules in my features/support directory

apiworld.rb

module Api
   class User
       ...
   end
   ...
end

and also

webworld.rb

module Web
   class User
       ...
   end
   ...
end

in my env.rb file I have

env.rb

require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/webworld')
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/apiworld')

if ENV['USE_API'] == 1
    World(Api)
else
    World(Web)
end

So if I try to use this construct in a step definition like

Given /^a user is created$/ do
   @user = User.new
end

And run cucumber, my ruby interpreter will give me the this output

uninitialized constant User (NameError) ./features/step_definitions/user_steps.rb:17: [...]

How to make this work? Is there a way or am I thinking i the wrong direction. I am pretty new to ruby - so I don't really know what it can do and what it can not do.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2403

Answers (1)

Aslak Hellesøy
Aslak Hellesøy

Reputation: 1191

You can't use World for this. World is for mixing methods into the self object in each stepdef.

Instead of this:

if ENV['USE_API'] == 1
  World(Api)
else
  World(Web)
end

Try this:

User = ENV['USE_API'] == 1 ? Api::User : Web::User

Upvotes: 2

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