The Cucumber Book

Fixing the Flickering Scenario

We’re almost ready to run our scenario again, but before we do, there’s one thing we need to change in our tests. Right now, when we run cucumber, we’ll rely on Capybara to control the web server part of our architecture, but we need a way to start up the backend transaction processor too. To do that, we’ll use a neat little gem called Service Manager.^[43]

Building a Poor Man's Service Manager for Windows

At the time of writing, Service Manager does not work on Windows. If you’re using Windows, you’ll need to ignore those parts of this chapter, but you’ll still need a way to start up the backend service before the tests run and stop it again at the end. We’re going to show you another way to control processes ...