Getting Started with Ruby, Cucumber, and Capybara on Windows
The Ruby version of Cucumber isn't just for Rails developers. If you have a .NET or Java web or service app, Ruby can be a great language for testing. With libraries like Capybara for driving web apps and JSON, RestClient, SOAP, and others for interacting with service apps, you'll find testing in Ruby requires much less code than in C# or Java. It can be hard to find instructions for setting up Ruby and Cucumber on Windows, though, so I've compiled these to help my clients get started, and I thought they might be useful to others. I've tested this on a clean Windows 7 VM, and everything works. Your mileage may vary, but let me know if you have any issues. Read More