We're pleased to announce a new release of the
Sauce ruby gem! After a lot of refactoring, version 2 of the gem is a dramatic step forward for Sauce on Ruby. Here are a couple built-in features we think you'll enjoy with this 2.0 release.
Baked-In Capybara Support
Capybara is now a fundamental part of the gem.
Capybara is a very straight-forward DSL for interacting with web pages in a "cross-driver" fashion. This means you can easily start writing tests rapidly using the default
rack-test driver, then switch to the `:sauce` driver when you need a real browser.
Different Flavors of Sauce
This release introduces two new gems to the Sauce Ruby family:
sauce-cucumber and
sauce-jasmine.
The
sauce-cucumber gem introduces an integration with the Behavior-Driven Development tool
Cucumber. Using Cucumber, it is now possible to start the development process on Sauce and use it all the way through to the development of features (sometimes referred to as "Acceptance-Test Driven Development").
The support for running
Jasmine tests on Sauce with the
sauce-jasmine gem is particularly exciting. Jasmine is a unit testing library for JavaScript, with a design inspired by
RSpec. It allows front-end developers to write concise unit tests for their increasingly complex web applications. With the sauce-jasmine gem, it's now trivial to take existing Jasmine tests and run them on top of Sauce.
Please note: Version 2 of the Sauce gem is
not entirely backwards compatible with version 1 of the gem. If you're relying on functionality that is provided by version 1, we recommend sticking with older releases.
For more info or to start testing with Cucumber on Sauce, check out this
quick and easy guide to getting started. Happy testing!
