Project: RSpec Rails 4.1

Publisher: RSpec

Feature spec

Feature specs are high-level tests meant to exercise slices of functionality
through an application. They should drive the application only via its external
interface, usually web pages.

Feature specs are marked by :type => :feature or if you have set
config.infer_spec_type_from_file_location! by placing them in
spec/features.

Feature specs require the Capybara gem, version 2.13.0 or later. Refer to the capybara API documentation for more information on the methods and matchers that can be
used in feature specs. Capybara is intended to simulate browser requests with HTTP. It will primarily send HTML content.

The feature and scenario DSL correspond to describe and it, respectively.
These methods are simply aliases that allow feature specs to read more as
customer and acceptance tests. When capybara is required it sets
:type => :feature automatically for you.

Scenarios

@rails_pre_5.1 Feature specs are skipped without Capybara

Given

a file named "spec/features/widget_management_spec.rb" with:

require "rails_helper"

RSpec.feature "Widget management", :type => :feature do
  scenario "User creates a new widget" do
    visit "/widgets/new"

    fill_in "Name", :with => "My Widget"
    click_button "Create Widget"

    expect(page).to have_text("Widget was successfully created.")
  end
end

When

I run rspec spec/features/widget_management_spec.rb

Then

the exit status should be 0

And

the output should contain "1 example, 0 failures, 1 pending"

And

the output should contain:

Pending: (Failures listed here are expected and do not affect your suite's status)

  1) Widget management User creates a new widget
     # Feature specs require the Capybara (https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara) gem, version 2.13.0 or later.
     # ./spec/features/widget_management_spec.rb:4

@capybara specify creating a Widget by driving the application with capybara

Given

a file named "spec/features/widget_management_spec.rb" with:

require "rails_helper"

RSpec.feature "Widget management", :type => :feature do
  scenario "User creates a new widget" do
    visit "/widgets/new"

    click_button "Create Widget"

    expect(page).to have_text("Widget was successfully created.")
  end
end

When

I run rspec spec/features/widget_management_spec.rb

Then

the example should pass

Last published 9 months ago by Jon Rowe.

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