Project: Aruba

Publisher: Mark Ayers

Set environment variable via "cucumber"-step

It is quite handy to modify the environment of a process. To make this
possible, aruba provides several steps. One of these is
I set the environment variables to:-step. Using this step sets the values of a
non-existing variables and overwrites an existing values. Each variable name
and each value is converted to a string. Otherwise ruby would complain
about an invalid argument.

Background

Given

I use the fixture "cli-app"

And

an executable named "bin/aruba-test-cli" with:

#!/bin/bash

echo $LONG_LONG_VARIABLE

Scenarios

Set environment variable by using a step given in table

Given

a file named "features/home_variable.feature" with:

Feature: Environment Variable
  Scenario: Run command
    Given I set the environment variables to:
      | variable           | value      |
      | LONG_LONG_VARIABLE | long_value |
    When I run cli
    Then the output should contain:
    """
    long_value
    """

When

I run cucumber

Then

the features should all pass

Set single environment variable by using a step

Given

a file named "features/home_variable.feature" with:

Feature: Environment Variable
  Scenario: Run command
    Given I set the environment variable "LONG_LONG_VARIABLE" to "long_value"
    When I run cli
    Then the output should contain:
    """
    long_value
    """

When

I run cucumber

Then

the features should all pass

Last published almost 6 years ago by philoserf.

Set environment variable via "cucumber"-step

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