The Cucumber Book, 2nd Edition

Posting a Message

To implement our second step, we’re going to cheat again and simulate the posting of a message by calling the models directly. This allows us to focus on building the messages page without getting too distracted. Let’s implement the second step definition:

rails/05/features/step_definitions/user_steps.rb

Given(/^the User has posted the message "([^"]*)"$/) do |message_text|
  expect(User.count).to eq 1
  FactoryGirl.create(:message, :content => message_text, :user => User.first)
end

Joe asks:

When Do I Use the UI and When Do I Use Models Directly to Create Records?

A Given means that something has happened in the ...