Module: Cucumber::LanguageSupport

Defined in:

lib/cucumber/language_support.rb,
lib/cucumber/language_support/language_methods.rb

Overview

This module defines the API for programming language support in Cucumber. While Cucumber itself is written in Ruby, any programming language can be supported by implementing this API.

For the sake of illustration we’ll consider an imaginary language called _why. _why files have the .why extension, so we need to put support for this language in the Cucumber::WhySupport::WhyLanguage. This class must be defined in a file called cucumber/why_support/why_language.rb and be available on Ruby’s $LOAD_PATH:

module Cucumber
  module WhySupport
    class WhyLanguage

      # Uses whatever available language bridge to load
      # +why_file+ and returns an Array of StepDefinition.
      def load_code_file(why_file)
      end
    end
  end
end

Each language implementation manages its own hooks, and must execute them at appropriate times.

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: LanguageMethods