Does cucumber do away with the need to write unit tests?

Question

I am a little confused by the sheer number of testing frameworks available for Ruby/ROR.

I have recently watched the Cucumber Railscasts and found them very interesting.

Answer 1

I've been practicing Cucumber/RSpec for the past half year or so doing BDD.

First of all BDD is not easy to get into, it will feel unnatural at the beginning.

But once you get into it, there's no other way to do programming.

To answer your question. To test Javascript you'll need a javascript driver that can be used by Capybara which is used by Cucumber.

capybara-webkit is what all the cool kids use now these days

There's one important thing to note.

Integration tests are slow.

And unit tests are fast, but can be slow, so it's important you use the right database cleaner and you write good tests that have good isolation.

My test setup which I'm extremely happy with:

Guard for loading spork Spork for faster tests Cucumber for integration testing capybara-webkit for javascript testing RSpec for unit testing

I don't do view tests and controller tests as these are redundant in my opinion as good knowledge of XPATH willl have you writing remarkable tests that even cover your page layout and structure.