Ruby: How can I repeat steps on Cucumber? - ruby

Question

I want to add 100 names in the list. I'm using Calabash, so I have the .feature file:
When I fill the item field with "3"
And press the button Adicionar
And I repeat the previous 2 steps 100 times
My .rb file:
...
When(/^I repeat the previous (\d+) steps (\d+) times$/) do |steps, times|
How can I implement this .rb file? The last thing I tried, I got the error:
Undefined dynamic step: "2" (Cucumber::UndefinedDynamicStep)

Answer 1

Below is a quick hello world example for google (I don't have your code, so can't properly do an example for your site).
The When is what we are interested in really.
Given(/^I navigate to "([^"]*)"$/) do |url|
$driver.navigate.to url
end
When(/^I search for "([^"]*)"$/) do |search_term|
# Loop through 100 times
100.times do
# Clear any text present
$driver.find_element({css: 'input[name="q"]'}).clear
# Type in the request
$driver.find_element({css: 'input[name="q"]'}).send_keys(search_term)
# Fire the request with the return key
$driver.find_element({css: 'input[name="q"]'}).send_keys(:return)
# Give time for the process to complete before a reset (This could also go first)
sleep 1
end
end
Then(/^I (?:should|must) see some results$/) do
wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 10)
wait.until { $driver.find_element({css: 'h3.r'}) }
end
Doing a for loop, like in the When above, could also have a maximum set by a new captured integer:
When(/^I search for "([^"]*)" (\d+) times?$/) do |search_term, times|
# Loop through an amount of times
times.to_i.times do
$driver.find_element({css: 'input[name="q"]'}).clear
$driver.find_element({css: 'input[name="q"]'}).send_keys(search_term)
$driver.find_element({css: 'input[name="q"]'}).send_keys(:return)
sleep 1
end
end
This would mean that you don't have to dynamically set up capturing of previous steps (which is doable, I'm sure, but would be a giant amount of effort for what you seem to be wanting to do here).

Answer 2

You have a list of names then you can pass it using the data table and you can write your a combined step as following:
Given I add following names in the list:
|Ram|
|Abdul|
|Scot|
and then you can write the step definitions using nested steps as following in .rb file:
Given(/^I add following names in the list:$/) do |table|
data = table.raw
data.each do |row|
steps %{
When I fill the item field with "#{row[0]}"
And press the button Adicionar
}
end
end
When(/^I fill the item field with "([^"]*)"$/) do |arg1|
pending # Write code to enter the the item
end
When(/^press the button Adicionar$/) do
pending # Write code to click the Adicionar button
end
If you simply want to fill the names with same name "3" then you can write your combined step as following:
Given I fill the item field with "3" 100 times
And then you can write the steps definition as following:
Given(/^I fill the item field with "([^"]*)" (\d+) times$/) do |name, loop_count|
loop_count.to_i.times do
steps %{
When I fill the item field with "#{name}"
And press the button Adicionar
}
end
end
When(/^I fill the item field with "([^"]*)"$/) do |arg1|
pending # Write code to enter the the item
end
When(/^press the button Adicionar$/) do
pending # Write code to click the Adicionar button
end