What We Just Learned
When testing a REST web service with Cucumber, it’s generally preferable to run Cucumber in-process—in the same process as your application. In this chapter, we covered the two main approaches—in-process and out-of-process. Although our example used the Sinatra web framework, the techniques used in this chapter can be applied to other web frameworks too.
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Rack-based applications such as Ruby on Rails and Sinatra can be tested in-process using Rack-Test, completely bypassing HTTP, making them fast.
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Non-Rack-based applications run in a separate process from Cucumber and have to be started before Cucumber runs.
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You can use indented JSON documents in your scenarios, as long as you ignore whitespace when you compare them ...
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