Back out the RSS Rabbit Hole

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I was almost done with the recipe RSS feed last night, but had to stop when I realized that the first "Given" step was insufficient for the last "Then" step in the Cucumber scenario:

Feature: RSS

  So that I tell my user when there are updates to this great cooking site
  As an RSS bot
  I want to be able to consume your RSS

  Scenario: Recipe RSS

    Given 20 delicious, easy to prepare recipes
    When I access the recipe RSS feed
    Then I should see the 10 most recent recipes
    And I should see the summary of each recipe

Specifically, the "20 delicious, easy to prepare recipes" did not include the summaries that would need to be verified by "Then I should see the summary of each recipe". I considered creating a new step rather than re-using this step (from the recipe search feature). After reviewing the step, it seemed unlikely that adding a summary to each recipe would have any adverse effects on existing scenarios. The reworked scenario becomes:

Given /^(\d+) (.+) recipes$/ do |count, keyword|
  date = Date.new(2009, 4, 22)

  (1..count.to_i).each do |i|
    permalink = "id-#{i}-#{keyword.gsub(/\W/, '-')}"

    recipe = {
      :title => "#{keyword} recipe #{i}",
      :summary => "recipe summary",
      :date  => date,
      :preparations => [
        { 'ingredient' => { 'name' => 'ingredient' } }
      ],
      :tag_names => [keyword.downcase]
    }

    RestClient.put "#{@@db}/#{permalink}",
      recipe.to_json,
      :content_type => 'application/json'
  end
end

I can now check for the "recipe summary" in the RSS feed's <description> tag:

Then /^I should see the summary of each recipe$/ do
  response.
    should have_selector("channel > item > description",
                         :content => "recipe summary")
end

And, with that, I am done with the recipe RSS feed scenario:

cstrom@jaynestown:~/repos/eee-code$ cucumber features -n \
>     -s "Recipe RSS"
Sinatra::Test is deprecated; use Rack::Test instead.
Feature: RSS

  So that I tell my user when there are updates to this great cooking site
  As an RSS bot
  I want to be able to consume your RSS

  Scenario: Recipe RSS
    Given 20 delicious, easy to prepare recipes
    When I access the recipe RSS feed
    Then I should see the 10 most recent recipes
    And I should see the summary of each recipe

1 scenario
4 passed steps

To be certain that I have not broken anything, I re-run all tests and Cucumber scenarios. Happily nothing is broken and I have :

27 scenarios
9 skipped steps
1 undefined step
226 passed steps

Only one scenario is undefined at this point. That unfinished scenario, navigation between recipes, is not all that important so I could easily deploy without it done. I do need to make sure that lookup values (tools, people, books, etc) are handled properly and I need some CSS. I will head down that rabbit hole tomorrow.