Undefined Webrat methods in Cucumber

Question

When I set up a new rails 3.1.3 project and write a Cucumber story with Webrat code, like this:

response.should contain("abc")

and I run rake cucumber, I get:

undefined method `contain' for #<Cucumber::Rails::World:0x00000003d2c578> (NoMethodError)

I believe that either Cucumber or Webrat or Rails is broken because I did nothing special at all and stuck to documentation.

The following steps reproduce the error:

• rvm 1.9.2
• rails new testapp -d mysql
• cd testapp
• {{ Edit database.yml }}
• rake db:create
• rake db:migrate
• gem install cucumber-rails
• gem install webrat
• gem install database_cleaner
• {{ Edit Gemfile to include 'cucumber-rails', 'webrat' and 'database_cleaner' without version numbers }}
• bundle install
• rails g cucumber:install
• rails g controller genres index
• add "resources :genres" to routes.rb
• {{ rails s and http://localhost:3000/genres works now }}
• Create /features/create_movie.feature with contents:

Feature: Create movie

Description

  Scenario: Create a movie in genre
    Given a genre named Comedy
    When I create a movie Caddyshack in the Comedy genre
    Then Caddyshack should be in the Comedy genre

• Create /features/step_definitions/movie_steps.rb with contents:

Given /^a genre named Comedy$/ do end

When /^I create a movie Caddyshack in the Comedy genre$/ do
end

Then /^Caddyshack should be in the Comedy genre$/ do
  visit genres_path
  response.should contain("abc")
end

• rake cucumber
• It fails with the error quoted above.
• Various suggestions in the internet did NOT work (e.g. Undefined webrat methods in cucumber step_definitions)
• My versions:

rails 3.1.3
cucumber 1.1.4
cucumber-rails 1.2.1
webrat 0.7.3
rack 1.3.5
rake 0.9.2.2

Any hints about how to resolve this?

Answer 1

Now by default Cucumber use Capybary instead of Webrat .

You need use have_content instead.

Correct snippet below:

When /^I create a movie Caddyshack in the Comedy genre$/ do
end

Then /^Caddyshack should be in the Comedy genre$/ do
  visit genres_path
  response.should have_content("abc")
end

Answer 2

I just received a response from the Cucumber (cukes) Google group:

Cucumber-Rails dropped support for Webrat in v0.5.0.beta1 (See https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-rails/blob/master/History.md)

Use Capybara instead.