Ruby Step Defs support

[dkowis]

I'm sad to see that there's no out of the box for Ruby Step Defs.

The integration between JRuby and Java is very high and being able to use it as the language of choice for the step definitions would be wonderful.

Not talking about supporting Gems and installing Gems and whatnot, that might be able to be handled separately or via a different mechanism, just supporting running the step definitions the same way they run in regular Ruby Cucumber.

Thanks,
David

[aslakhellesoy]

Why don't you contribute JRuby support?

[dkowis]

I might do this :) Turns out someone i work with is on the core team (i dont remember his name off the top of my head) If i can find time between all my other time wasting activites ;)

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Why don't you contribute JRuby support?

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[aslakhellesoy]

Now, if you can figure out how to require 'test/unit' or require 'minitest' in the stepdefs that would be great. They should be in the stdlib embedded inside the jruby jar, but maybe some extra config is needed in order for that to be picked up. Being able to pick up gems from the file system (perhaps by setting $GEM_PATH and/or $GEM_HOME would be even more awesome.

Would you want to investigate that?

Cheers,
Aslak

[dkowis]

That is something I might be able to do :)

It'd be a wonderful benefit to be able to somehow package gems and use them. I will percolate on that Idea, and see if I can't sneak in some time at work to get it done.

Thanks for getting this done so quickly. You're awesome.

[nicokruger]

Hey guys,

Just to let you know with relation to the require 'test/unit' (or indeed, any require that is in the sort of "standard library" for jruby), if you just change your jruby dependency from jruby to jruby-complete in the POM of your project, then all the standard ruby libraries seem to be available.

So basically, I did this (in my projects pom.xml):

   <dependency>
        <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-jruby</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.jruby</groupId>
                <artifactId>jruby</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>

(Note the exclusion of the original jruby dependency from cucumber-jruby)

Then I simply added:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jruby</groupId>
        <artifactId>jruby-complete</artifactId>
        <version>1.6.1</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

And everything seems peachy now.

Hope this helps

[aslakhellesoy]

@nicokruger: facepalm

Will fix this soon :-)

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