Comments on: IronRuby, Cucumber, & win32console: Picking up the Gauntlet

By: Will

Will — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:34:54 +0000

I don't know. If it didn't, I'm certain you could swap it out for something like WatiR/WatiN or Selenium.

By: Gk

Gk — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:50:35 +0000

We now have a .net MVC project, my boss want me to use Cucumber and IronRuby to do the acceptance test, here comes the question, is that possible to use webrat with IronRuby, Or there is another browser simulator that can be used in this scenario.

By: Thomas Lundström

Thomas Lundström — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:17:30 +0000

@Will
What’s the status of the project? Is it usable?

@Nick C
If you run cucumber with the switch –no-colors you won’t get the color codes to the terminal. I got the same problem when doing a write-up on cucumber + ironruby here: http://blog.thomaslundstrom.com/2009/08/on-running-cucumber-under-ironruby-09.html

By: Will

Will — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:29:18 +0000

Those "strange characters" are ANSI control codes, which non-Windows terminals interpret to set the color for the characters that are output. This is why we need to port Win32Console, or use some other API for setting the colors. I've decided to start working on the latter, and am working on iron-term-ansicolor. Since I can access the .Net BCL directly in IronRuby, I'm simply going to alias and override Kernel#puts and Kernel#print to call the appropriate System.Console API's before sending the string, scrubbed of ANSI control codes, to standard out.

By: Nick C

Nick C — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:04:03 +0000

Hi,

This sounds good, I may also be interested in contributing (if so, I’ll probably just fork your code from GitHub

As an aside, I’m getting a lot of strange characters on the console when I try to run the features from the cucumber gem:

Scenario Outline: Add two numbers←[90m # features/addition.feature:6←[0m
unknown:0: warning: multiple values for a block parameter (2 for 1)
←[36mGiven I have entered into the calculator←[90m # UNKNOWN:-1←[0m←[0m
unknown:0: warning: multiple values for a block parameter (2 for 1)
←[36mAnd I have entered into the calculator←[90m # UNKNOWN:-1←[0m←[0m
unknown:0: warning: multiple values for a block parameter (2 for 1)
←[36mWhen I press add←[90m # UNKNOWN:-1←[0m←[0m
unknown:0: warning: multiple values for a block parameter (2 for 1)
←[36mThen the result should be on the screen←[90m # UNKNOWN:-1←[0m←[0m

Have you seen this before? I was wondering whether it had anything to do with the colouring output not rendering properly (hence my interest in the port I’m using IronRuby 0.5.0

thanks,
Nick