Rails Cucumber access to controller variables

Question

Hi,

I've a controller that defines the @projects variables to be displayed in the view.

There is any way to access to that projects in the cucumber step? Note that this variables contains the paginated results, the idea is to test if the values are being displayed in the page.

I've tried to access the variable through assigns and controller but they are both nill.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The way you would generally handle this is in Cucumber is by testing the output directly.

So:

Given X projects When I view project page N I should see Project A I should not see Project B

If you are interrogating code from Cucumber you are probably DoingItWrong(tm).