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Project: Aruba

Publisher: Mark Ayers

Mock the HOME variable

If you develop commandline applications, you might want to give your users
the possibility to configure your program. Normally this is done via
.your-app-rc or via .config/your-app an systems which comply to the
freedesktop-specifications.

To prevent to litter the developers HOME-directory aruba comes with a step
which mocks the HOME-variable. It is set to the
aruba-working-directory.

Background
Given
I use the fixture "cli-app"
And
an executable named "bin/aruba-test-cli" with: 
#!/bin/bash

echo "HOME: $HOME"
Scenarios
  1. Mocked home directory by using a step
  2. Mocked home directory by using a tag
  3. Redefine home directory by using the aruba configuration
Mocked home directory by using a step
Given
a file named "features/home_variable.feature" with: 
Feature: Home Variable
  Scenario: Run command
    Given a mocked home directory
    When I run cli
    Then the output should match %r<HOME:.*tmp/aruba$>
When
I run cucumber
Then
the features should all pass
Mocked home directory by using a tag
Given
a file named "features/home_variable.feature" with: 
Feature: Home Variable
  @mocked-home-directory
  Scenario: Run command
    When I run cli
    Then the output should match %r<HOME:.*tmp/aruba$>
When
I run cucumber
Then
the features should all pass
Redefine home directory by using the aruba configuration
Given
a file named "features/support/home_variable.rb" with: 
require 'aruba/cucumber'

Aruba.configure do |config|
  config.home_directory = File.join(config.root_directory, config.working_directory)
end
Given
a file named "features/home_variable.feature" with: 
Feature: Home Variable
  Scenario: Run command
    When I run cli
    Then the output should match %r<HOME:.*tmp/aruba$>
When
I run cucumber
Then
the features should all pass

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