Comments on: Driving Large Scale, Multi-Language Development With Cucumber

By: andywatts

andywatts — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:34:49 +0000

We're using capistrano-ext to deploy from github to testing and production environments.
teamcity is polling github and running rspec, plain and selenium cucumber tests constantly.
teamcity's web interface is excellent and integrates into rubymine.

By: andywatts

andywatts — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:21:58 +0000

Great post.
We're just now getting some cucumber coverage and our team city is showing 700.
Glad to hear that its still working at 7,000.

By: How we roll at Intent Media « One of the Wolves

How we roll at Intent Media « One of the Wolves — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:02:59 +0000

[...] and "my boss", just wrote a post about how we roll at Intent Media. And by how we roll, I mean how we use Cucumber to power automated functional tests of a large scale ad platform. (Oh ya, that. [...]

By: Kurt Schrader

Kurt Schrader — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:39:20 +0000

Hey Bryan,

I've got another blog post planned to address those issues. Unfortunately, I'm suddenly slammed at work, so it's going to be a few weeks until I get to it.

By: brynary

brynary — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:04:00 +0000

We're looking at having to tackle some similar problems at the company I recently moved to.

Can you give some more details about how your integration build is setup? For example:

* Is it a separate repository from your Java and Rails apps?
* How does it pull in the other apps? Submodules? Config files?
* How do you deal with setting up database state when dealing with an out-of-process Cucumber environment?
* Have you integrated this into your deployment workflow, so that all deploys are coming from versions of each app that passed CI as a set?

Any more info you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

-Bryan

By: Kurt Schrader

Kurt Schrader — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:37:56 +0000

Will, you clearly didn't read the article. Quote:

"At Intent Media we use Cucumber to drive Celerity across our entire software stack."

The new version of Cucumber can actually use Capybara instead of Webrat in order to let you choose what driver to use: http://github.com/jnicklas/capybara

(Full disclosure: I'm not just being rude to a stranger. Will used to be my intern.)

By: will leinweber

will leinweber — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:07:24 +0000

If youhave any javascript on your site, check out using celerity instead of webrat. Especially since you, Kurt, are all on jruby already, if I remember correctly.

For people who aren't using jruby, there is a version of culerity that bundles celerity and jruby all together.

I wrote a bit about it, but it's somewhat outdated: http://bitfission.com/blog/2009/06/celerity.html

culerity with jruby: http://github.com/fletcherm/culerity