Webrat - Ruby Acceptance Testing for Web applications

• gitrdoc.com/brynary/webrat

• groups.google.com/group/webrat

• webrat.lighthouseapp.com/

• github.com/brynary/webrat

• #webrat on Freenode

Description

Webrat lets you quickly write expressive and robust acceptance tests for a Ruby web application.

Features

• Browser Simulator for expressive, high level acceptance testing without the performance hit and browser dependency of Selenium or Watir (See Webrat::Session)

• Use the same API for Browser Simulator and real Selenium tests using Webrat::Selenium when necessary (eg. for testing AJAX interactions)

• Supports multiple Ruby web frameworks: Rails, Merb and Sinatra

• Supports popular test frameworks: RSpec, Cucumber, Test::Unit and Shoulda

• Webrat::Matchers API for verifying rendered HTML using CSS, XPath, etc.

Example

class SignupTest < ActionController::IntegrationTest

  def test_trial_account_sign_up
    visit home_path
    click_link "Sign up"
    fill_in "Email", :with => "good@example.com"
    select "Free account"
    click_button "Register"
  end

end

Behind the scenes, Webrat will ensure:

• If a link, form field or button is missing, the test will fail.

• If a URL is invalid, the test will fail.

• If a page load or form submission is unsuccessful, the test will fail.

Installing Nokogiri

Users of Debian Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) need to run:

sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev.

Otherwise the Nokogiri gem, which Webrat depends on, won’t install properly.

Install for Rails

To install the latest release as a gem:

sudo gem install webrat

To install the latest code as a plugin: (Note: This may be less stable than using a released version)

script/plugin install git://github.com/brynary/webrat.git

In your test_helper.rb or env.rb (for Cucumber) add:

require "webrat"

Webrat.configure do |config|
  config.mode = :rails
end

Install with Merb

Merb 1.0 has built-in, seamless Webrat support. Just start using methods from Webrat::Session in your specs.

Authors

• Maintained by Bryan Helmkamp

• Original code written by Seth Fitzsimmons

• Initial development was sponsored by EastMedia

• Many other contributors. See attributions in History.txt

License

Copyright © 2007-2008 Bryan Helmkamp, Seth Fitzsimmons. See MIT-LICENSE.txt in this directory.