spinach vs cucumber for BDD in rails

Question

I am starting on BDD. Was wondering which would be better to start with Cucumber or Spinach. My impression is that Spinach is new off the block. Look here

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Answer 1

If you're stuck with Cucumber and you don't want global steps, you can work around the problem by tagging the steps with some sort of scenario ID:

# features/1_greetings.feature
Scenario: Formal greeting
  Given I have an empty array [#1]
  And I append my first name and my last name to it [#1]
  When I pass it to my super-duper method [#1]
  Then the output should contain a formal greeting [#1]

The #1 scenario id can be any value. I like to use ticket numbers for future reference.

You can then place all the steps in one step definition file. It's close enough to the look of Spinach::FeatureSteps. No regex arguments too!

# features/step_definitions/1_greetings.rb
Given 'I have an empty array [#1]' do
  #...
end

And 'I append my first name and my last name to it [#1]' do
  #...
end

When 'I pass it to my super-duper method [#1]' do
  #...
end

Then 'the output should contain a formal greeting [#1]' do
  #...
end

I posted more about the workaround at github.