Tag Archives: cucumber

Taking your cucumber tests back to the future with Delorean

March 31, 2010 – 12:28 pm

I’m currently working on an API for Vquence’s VQdata product which allows our customers to use a REST interface to retrieve videos with certain keywords they have previously stored. While writing tests I need to be able to mock out the Time object so that my tests were deterministic relative to time. I remembered listening [...]

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Adding multiple database support to Cucumber

October 8, 2009 – 4:46 pm

The Vqmetrics application needs to connect to two different databases. The first holds the videos, authors and their relevant statistics, while the second database holds the users, monitors and trackers. We do this by specifying two databases in config/database.yml. development: database: vqmetrics_devel < <: *login_dev_local   vqdata_development: &VQDATA_TEST database: vqdata_devel <<: *login_dev_local So by default [...]

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