[rspec-users] Cucumber: GivenScenario doesn't seem to work

[aslak hellesoy]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Matt Wynne <matt at mattwynne.net> wrote:
> I'm hardly a story-runner expert, so I may be making a dumb mistake here...
> I'm trying to get one scenario to run another as part of its Given clause.
> It looks like this:
> Scenario: Admin user merges two venues
> GivenScenario Admin user views two venues
> When I go to "/admin/venues"
> Then I should see "Venue1"
> Obviously the When / Then bits will get more complicated once I get this
> working.
> In another .feature file, I have the following scenario (which passes)
> Scenario: Admin user views two venues
> Given the default city exists
> ...
>
> The scenario "Admin user merges two venues" fails with this ugly backtrace:
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/scenario.rb:45:in
> `given_scenario_steps': You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
> (NoMethodError)
> The error occurred while evaluating nil.steps   from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/given_scenario.rb:9:in
> `steps'
>         from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/scenario.rb:41:in
> `steps'
>         from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/scenario.rb:41:in
> `map'
>         from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/scenario.rb:41:in
> `steps'
>         from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/scenario.rb:9:in
> `accept'
>         from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/executor.rb:62:in
> `visit_scenario'
>         from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/executor.rb:53:in
> `visit_regular_scenario'
>         from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/feature.rb:47:in
> `accept'
>          ... 6 levels...
>         from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/executor.rb:36:in
> `visit_features'
>         from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/cli.rb:84:in
> `execute!'
>         from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/cli.rb:11:in
> `execute'
>         from
> /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/bin/cucumber:3
> rake aborted!
> Command failed with status (1): [/usr/local/bin/ruby -I
> "/Users/matt/Docume...]
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>

GivenScenario only works when you're pointing to a scenario in the
same feature/same feature file.

Please add a feature request if you want it to work differently.
http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16211-cucumber/overview

Aslak

> cheers,
> Matt
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