Define cucumber environment in .couchapprc

When you set-up a .couchapprc file you can define different databases, hosts ... for different environments (see couchapp doc).
To use these set-up when running cucumber I modify the env.rb mentioned here. It use the test environment defined in .couchapprc for cucumber scenarios.


Example .couchapprc file:

BrainDump: CouchDB link cheatsheet

Note: "File" and "folder" refer to a couchapp directory structure.

{prefix} = /{db}/_design/{application}
{list_function} = name of file in lists folder (without .js)
{show_function} = name of file in shows folder (without .js)
{view_function} = name of subfolder in views folder

functionality	link	function	Read on
list	{prefix}/_list/{list_function}/{view_function}	function(head, req)	CouchDB book
show	{prefix}/_show/{show_function}/{doc_id}	function(doc, req)	CouchDB book
view	{prefix}/_view/{view_function}	map: function(doc) reduce: function(keys, values, rereduce)	intro, view parameter

Culerity, Cucumber and Couchapp - Part 2

Some further modifications in the files mentioned here were necessary to get the initial setup runable.
(System configuration: WinXP, JRuby 1.5.1, CouchDB 0.11, couchapp 0.6.2)

1. step_definitions/common_culerity_steps.rb - add this
   
   1. def couchapp
   2.   'rem' # enter your couchapp name here
   3. end
2. support/paths.rb - modify
   
   Before:
   
   1.     when /start page/                                            
   2.       "/#{database}/_design/#{database}/index.html"
   3.     else                                                        
   4.  
   After:
   
   1.     when /start page/
   2.       "/#{database}/_design/#{couchapp}/index.html"
   3.     else
3. step_definitions/common_culerity_steps.rb - remove ":resynchronize => true," from
   
   1.     $browser = Culerity::RemoteBrowserProxy.new $server, {
   2.       :browser => :firefox,
   3.       :javascript_exceptions => true,
   4.       :resynchronize => true,
   5.       :status_code_exceptions => true}
   6.  
4. start_page.feature - modify the example scenario to
   
   1.   Scenario: go to the start page        
   2.     When I go to the start page          
   3.     Then I should see the text "Generated CouchApp"

After this modifications I got:

E:\projects\privat\rem>jruby -S cucumber --no-color
Feature: start page
  In order to feel welcome
  As a user
  I want to be welcomed on the start page

  Scenario: go to the start page                    # features\start_page.feature:7
2010-07-10 17:01:12 [INFO] Visit your CouchApp here:
http://localhost:5984/hejhej/_design/rem/index.html
    When I go to the start page                     # features/step_definitions/common_culerity_steps.rb:90
    Then I should see the text "Generated CouchApp" # features/step_definitions/common_culerity_steps.rb:119

1 scenario (1 passed)
2 steps (2 passed)
0m8.625s

E:\projects\privat\rem>

Culerity, Cucumber and Couchapp

Starting a new couchapp application I want to try BDD. I found a small tutorial how to testing couchapps with cucumber and culerity. Unfortunatly I have to deal with WinXP, and so I run into some trouble because the culerity server doesn't start. Finally I can solve it by insert "jruby " in culerity-0.2.10/lib/culerity.rb, line 28.

Before:

def self.run_server
   IO.popen(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../bin/run_celerity_server.rb", 'r+').extend(ServerCommands)
end

After:

def self.run_server
   IO.popen("jruby " + File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../bin/run_celerity_server.rb", 'r+').extend(ServerCommands)
end

CouchDB API: Inspect parameter

While playing with couchdb/couchapp often I want to inspect api function parameter. Javascript does not provide a buildin function to do some inspection but this one does a good job. After removing the logging stuff it can be used e.g. to inspect show function parameter.

Inspection show function can be found here.

CouchDB auf WinXP

• Installationspaket gibts hier


• Nach dem Installieren müssen noch in >installdir</bin/erl.ini zwei Pfade angepasst werden


• [Update]in couchdb.bat musste ich noch in der Zeile nach "setlocal"

  %~d0

  einfügen

Und dann ...

D:\Programme\CouchDB\bin>couchdb.bat
CouchDB 0.11.0b819947 - prepare to relax...
Eshell V5.7.2  (abort with ^G)
1> Apache CouchDB 0.11.0b819947 (LogLevel=info) is starting.
1> Apache CouchDB has started. Time to relax.
1> [info] [<0.35.0>] Apache CouchDB has started on http://127.0.0.1:5984/

bzw.