I developed MySecrets to manages my personal secrets/passwords. I had a lot of fun doing BDD with cucumber. Pickle works very nicely with Machinist to reduce step definition code. I used authlogic for authentication and formtastic to reduce the boiler plate code in my views.

I had some trouble integrating cucumber, pickle, machinist, and authlogic. A user has 0 to many secrets and secrets are protected by authlogic. So cucumber features that needed to add secrets and validate them were a little tricky.

This scenario creates a user, login in, creates a secret, shows the secret, and finally validates the secret.


The show pages are handled with a polymorphic_path.


The actual user creation and login steps are handled here.


The secret is validated with:


All of the coded can be found at http://github.com/perry3819/mysecrets

Labels: BDD, Rails, Ruby