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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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Bootstrapping the User Interface

Now that we have a model we’re happy with, we’re going to wrap it in a simple user interface that allows the user to specify how much cash they want to withdraw. Even though it might not be a typical choice for a real ATM, we’re going to use a web form. We’ll use the Sinatra[37] web framework to serve our user interface, and we’ll use the Capybara[38] gem to automate it. We won’t go into much detail about how Capybara works here, but you’ll learn much more in Chapter 15, Using Capybara to Test Ajax Web Applications.

We’ll start by adding the necessary gems to our project and getting the web server up and running.

Installing the Gems

Our app is growing up. We need to install another couple of Ruby gems, so ...

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