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The Cucumber Book
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The Cucumber Book

by Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 12m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Running Our Program

To implement the next step, edit features/step_definitions/calculator_steps.rb so that the second step definition looks like this:

first_taste/04/features/step_definitions/calculator_steps.rb
 
When /^the calculator is run$/ ​do
 
@output = `ruby calc.rb #{@input}`
 
raise(​'Command failed!'​) ​unless​ $?.success?
 
end

This code attempts to run our calculator program calc.rb, passing it the input we stored in the first step and storing any output in another instance variable. Then it checks a specially—but rather cryptically—named Ruby variable $? to check whether the command succeeded and raises an error if it didn’t. Remember that Cucumber fails a step if the step definition raises an error; this is the simplest way ...

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