When running tests, cucumber tries to load support/roles/file.rb and blows up

[anujbiyani]

The Wiki says to put roles in ./support/roles/ so I created ./support/roles/base.rb with the contents

name 'base'
description 'shared role applied to all nodes'

run_list(
  "recipe[chef-client]",
  "recipe[git]"
)

Now if I run any cucumber-chef test (regardless of whether or not the test tries to upload a role), I get the error

$> cucumber
  * cucumber-chef v2.0.7 - connected to test lab
undefined method `name' for main:Object (NoMethodError)
<chef_repo>/features/support/roles/base.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
<gemset_dir>/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/rb_support/rb_language.rb:129:in `load'
<gemset_dir>/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/rb_support/rb_language.rb:129:in `load_code_file'
<gemset_dir>/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime/support_code.rb:172:in `load_file'
<gemset_dir>/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime/support_code.rb:84:in `block in load_files!'
<gemset_dir>/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime/support_code.rb:83:in `each'
<gemset_dir>/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime/support_code.rb:83:in `load_files!'
<gemset_dir>/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime.rb:175:in `load_step_definitions'
<gemset_dir>/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime.rb:40:in `run!'
<gemset_dir>/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:43:in `execute!'
<gemset_dir>/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:20:in `execute'
<gemset_dir>/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/bin/cucumber:14:in `<top (required)>'
<gemset_dir>/bin/cucumber:23:in `load'
<gemset_dir>/bin/cucumber:23:in `<main>'

It seems to be because Cucumber automatically loads files in ./features/support, then tries to execute base.rb which then blows up.

Without monkey-patching Cucumber, I'm not sure what to do about fixing this unless Cucumber-Chef is changed so it doesn't load roles from a subdirectory of ./features/support.

Another related concern I have is that any role that I create for my project is in ./roles, but any roles that the feature tests use have to be in ./features/support/roles. This implies that any role that I use in production and want to use in a test would have to be duplicated in both directories.

Is there any reason why Cucumber-Chef shouldn't load roles from ./roles?

(For now I'm simply uploading roles by hand with cc-knife role from file FILE.)

[zpatten]

Ya this shouldn't be happening; I should have something for you in the next day or so.

[zpatten]

Sorry; holidays took most of my time so I wasn't able to work on this issue. Going to take a stab at it this weekend.

[anujbiyani]

No problem, I'm quite happy so far with manually uploading roles since that's the same thing I have to do in production.

[zpatten]

Been working on CC; I think I know why your having issues. You need at add something along the lines of this to your cucumber.yml in the root of your chef-repo:

    ---
    default: -c -v --exclude support/cookbooks --exclude support/data_bags --exclude support/keys --exclude support/roles

Otherwise; cucumber tries to load all files under the features directory and since cucumber doesn't rightfully understand the Chef DSL it will proceed to blow up.

[zpatten]

Also; if you want to load roles directory from your repo; you should be able to. Instead of using ./features/support/roles/xyz, you should be able to just say ./roles/xyz.

[anujbiyani]

The cucumber.yml addition worked perfectly, thanks!

I thought I had tried uploading from ./roles/xyz and found that it wasn't working, but I just tried it and it's working just fine. I must've screwed something up a while back or be misremembering.

I'll update the Wiki with the cucumber.yml info; I'm fairly new to Cucumber and so didn't know about that file, and I think it'd help people like me if this info were stated (or maybe just this issue linked to) from the Wiki.

Thanks again.

[zpatten]

Awesome; glad to hear that worked for you. I must admit the wiki needs some loving; thank you for adding the note to it, I appreciate it very much!