Using EasyB in Grails

Question

Hi there folks,

It's probably going to be one of the lame and novice level questions but I'm struggling with it for some time and it's still not working.

I have a HomeController:

package example

class HomeController {

    def index = { 
        [ message: "Hello, world!" ]
    }
}

Now I've installed easyb plugin:

grails install-plugin easyb

I've also created a basic story for this controller (in "test/unit" folder):

scenario "Should return 'Hello, world!' message", {
    given "Controller is instantiated", {
        mockController HomeController
        controller = new HomeController()
    }

    when "Controller received request for index action"
    and "No additional parameters are expected", {
        result = controller.index()  
    }

    then "Controller displays Hello, world!", {
        result.message.shouldBe "Hello, world!"
    }
}

When I run the easyb tests

grails test-app unit:easyb

instead of this test passing as it should I get the following error message at "when No additional parameters are expected":

[FAILURE: No signature of method: HomeController.index() is applicable for argument types: () values: []]

and then for the second part at "then Controller displays Hello, world!"

[FAILURE: No such property: result for class: HomeController]

I'm basically following the instructions from http://grails.org/plugin/easyb.

Can anyone explain to me what I'm doing wrong?

Matthias.

Answer 1

Oh well, I found it... conventions, conventions, conventions....

Naming the scenario file HomeController.story forced the engine to include "controller" variable in the scope. What's not clear though is why I couldn't do it again...

Nevermind. After removing the "given" part completely it works as it should.