It's amusing that this post about some raft of dependencies that is supposed to make testing easy, painless and fun opens with a mini-rant about an earlier module that was supposed to make things super easy and fun, but ended up causing the author pain.
This seems like a common Rails tradeoff (trading quick development time for dependency chasing and complexity), except it's rarely presented as a tradeoff.
I have used the tool in question and recently abandoned it for the same setup described in the article, I'm guessing for the same reasons he did.
Cucumber is only annoying if you don't need to use it. A lot of people who didn't really need it were using it in the rails world, and recently they have got sick of it.
If you have an actual business need for executable documentation like it provides, then it is still excellent and not a headache.
Surely this is a community-wide iterative search and, although it can be annoying to keep up with, it should be seen as a good thing (unlike other communities which stagnate around one dominant concept)
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It's amusing that this post about some raft of dependencies that is supposed to make testing easy, painless and fun opens with a mini-rant about an earlier module that was supposed to make things super easy and fun, but ended up causing the author pain.
This seems like a common Rails tradeoff (trading quick development time for dependency chasing and complexity), except it's rarely presented as a tradeoff.
I have used the tool in question and recently abandoned it for the same setup described in the article, I'm guessing for the same reasons he did.
Cucumber is only annoying if you don't need to use it. A lot of people who didn't really need it were using it in the rails world, and recently they have got sick of it.
If you have an actual business need for executable documentation like it provides, then it is still excellent and not a headache.
Surely this is a community-wide iterative search and, although it can be annoying to keep up with, it should be seen as a good thing (unlike other communities which stagnate around one dominant concept)