[rspec-users] loading custom matchers into cucumber

[Ben Mabey]

Joaquin Rivera Padron wrote:
>
>     hi there,
>     In a step I need to assert (don't know hoe to translate this into
>     "should" terms) state before keep going, example:
>
Perhaps you need to make an "expectation" instead of an "assert"?  :)


>
>     Given "I have signed up as tom who is an admin" do |user, role| do
>         # call some steps to create user tom
>
>     end
>
>
> oops, sorry that was gone unfinished!
>
> Given "I have signed up as tom who is an admin" do |user, role| do
>     # call some steps to create user tom
>     # I need to assert that tom really have the rol (this is not the 
> most important, so please bear with me)
>     user_should_have_role user, role
> end
>
> that as you see is not very pretty, I would like to do:
>
> Spec::Matchers.define :have_rol do |role|
>   match do |user|
>     user.roles.collect{ |r| r.name <http://r.name> }.include?(role)
>   end
> end
>
> and then "assert":
>
> tom.should have_role role
>
> only I don't get to load the matcher. how you normally load custom 
> machters to be used in cucumber?


Try putting your Spec::Matchers.define block in your env.rb file to see 
if that works.  I haven't looked closely at how the new matcher DSL adds 
the matchers but I would think that would work.

-Ben