The Cucumber Book

Organizing the Code

Before we finish this session, let’s be kind to our future selves and tidy up a little. As we worked, we just created everything we needed inline in our features/step_definitions/step.rb file. We’ll move most of that stuff out of there, and put it into a more conventional place. Here’s a list of what we’d like to fix:

• The application’s domain model classes should go into a lib directory in the root of the project.

• The KnowsTheDomain module can move into its own file.

• The transform can also move into its own file.

• The steps file can be split to organize the step definitions better. This is arguably unnecessary for a project with only three step definitions, but we’ll do it anyway to illustrate how we’d do this on a ...