Use a Groovy Console for an interactive Geb Session

README.md

Interactive Geb session

This uses a Groovy Console that is connected to a Geb Browser session. It allow for a responsive interaction with Geb to evaluate / test expressions.

It has the project's test code in the classpath so you can use all your page objects or utility code directly in the Console.

build.gradle

dependencies {
    // ...
    testCompile 'org.spockframework:spock-core:1.0-groovy-2.4'
    testCompile "org.gebish:geb-spock:0.13.1"
}


task gebConsole(dependsOn: 'testClasses', type: JavaExec) {
    main = 'my.ConsoleRunner'
    classpath = sourceSets.test.runtimeClasspath
    args = ['startup_script.groovy']
}

ConsoleRunner.groovy

package my

/**
 * This pre-initializes the Console
 */
class ConsoleRunner {
    static void main(String[] args) {
        def script = args[0]
        def console = new Console()
        console.run()
        console.loadScriptFile(new File(script))
        console.runScript()
    }
}

startup_script.groovy

import geb.Browser
// import your.page.objects.here.* 

// missing here: setting baseurl etc.
  
Browser.drive {
    go "www.google.de"
}