= webcat

* http://github.com/jnicklas/webcat

== Description:

Webcat is a unified API for writing web application integration tests for Rack
applications. It works with any rack application and currently has support for
Culerity, Selenium and rack-test.

== Install:

Clone and install from github for now

== Getting Started:

You can initialize a session and start issuing commands:

    require 'webcat'

    session = Webcat::Session.new(:culerity, my_rack_app)
    session.within("//form[@id='session']") do
      session.fill_in 'Login', :with => 'user@example.com'
      session.fill_in 'Password', :with => 'password'
    end
    session.click_link 'Sign in'

Webcat provides a terser DSL:

    require 'webcat'
    require 'webcat/dsl'
    
    include Webcat
    Webcat.default_driver = :culerity

    within("//form[@id='session']") do
      fill_in 'Login', :with => 'user@example.com'
      fill_in 'Password', :with => 'password'
    end
    click_link 'Sign in'

If you want to use it with Cucumber, just require:

    require 'webcat/cucumber'
    Webcat.app = my_rack_app

Then write your steps like this:

    When /I sign in/ do
      within("//form[@id='session']") do
        fill_in 'Login', :with => 'user@example.com'
        fill_in 'Password', :with => 'password'
      end
      click_link 'Sign in'
    end

If you're using Rails, webcan can set up the rack app for you. Just do:

    require 'webcat/cucumber'
    require 'webcat/rails'

== Gotchas:

* Everything is *case sensitive*. Webcat heavily relies on XPath, which doesn't
  support case insensitive searches.
* Unchecking checkboxes and filling in password fields is currently broken
  under Culerity.
* Domain names (including subdomains) don't work under rack-test. Since it's a
  pain to set up subdomains for the other drivers anyway, you should consider
  an alternate solution. See for example [GIST here].
* The set_hidden_field method from Webrat is not implemented, since it doesn't
  work in any of the browser based drivers (Culerity, Selenium)
* Access to session, request and response from the test is not possible. Maybe
  we'll do response headers at some point in the future, but the others really
  shouldn't be touched in an integration test anyway.
* Access to Rails specific stuff (such as +controller+) is unavailable, since
  we're not using Rails' integration testing.
* <a href="#"> Will cause problems under rack-test, please do
  <a href="/same/url#"> instead. You can achieve this in Rails with
  +link_to('foo', :anchor => '')+

== License:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 Jonas Nicklas

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