Capybara Acceptance DSL with MiniTest::Spec? - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

The readme for Capybara (see Using Capybara with MiniTest::Spec) says that I can do this if I include the module correctly, but it doesn't give any illustrative examples of how... I've tried including the module like this:
class MiniTest::Spec
include Capybara::DSL
end
... to no avail. I keep getting this error:
<main>': undefined methodfeature' for main:Object (NoMethodError)
How can I get it to work as it's written in the commented-out code?
spec/acceptance/api/reward_terms_spec.rb:
require "#{Dir.pwd}/spec/acceptance/acceptance_helper"
# this syntax works...
describe 'reward terms acceptance test' do
include Capybara::DSL
describe '#index' do
specify {
visit '/reward_terms'
# ...
}
end
end
# this syntax doesn't work...
# feature 'RewardTerms', %q{
# In order to get all reward terms available to me
# As an API client
# I want to list all active RewardTerms
# } do
# background do
# set_api_headers
# end
# scenario 'RewardTerm index' do
# visit '/reward_terms'
# ...
# end
# end
spec/acceptance/acceptance_helper.rb:
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
require "#{Dir.pwd}/config/environment"
require 'minitest/autorun'
require 'capybara/rails'
def set_api_headers(device_id = 'abcd1234')
header 'Accept', 'application/json'
header 'X-Device-Id', device_id
end

Answer 1

There is a nice description in this post for how you should make MinitTest::Spec run with capybara. There he basically includes the Capybara::DSL into the base class of all the specs as in
class RequestSpec < MiniTest::Spec
include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
include Capybara::DSL
end
this works rather nicely in our setup, but of course it does not reopen the MiniTest::Spec.

Answer 2

Here's a simple test_helper rig to run functional & integration tests in Rails using spec syntax. Based on a gist by tenderlove, the article mentioned above re: MiniTest with Capybara, as well as a lot of tinkering & source-poring.
https://gist.github.com/1607879

Answer 3

You should add minitest-rails-capybara gem to the Gemfile and add a word "feature" to the end of description as follows:
feature 'RewardTerms feature', %q{
In order to get all reward terms available to me
As an API client
I want to list all active RewardTerms
} do
background do
set_api_headers
end
scenario 'RewardTerm index' do
visit '/reward_terms'
#...
end
end
The special word "feature" is case incensitive, and can be "browser". You can customize it by adding a line to the test_helper.rb:
MiniTest::Spec.register_spec_type(/FooBar\z/i, Capybara::Rails::TestCase)