Write Better Cukes

gistfile1.rb

# question regarding http://blog.steveklabnik.com/2011/12/20/write-better-cukes-with-the-rel-attribute.html
#
When /^I choose to edit the article "([^"]*)"$/ do |article_name|
  article = Article.find_by_name(article_name)
  find("//a[@href='#{edit_article_path article}']").click
end

This ties the editing concept to your titles. It also loses all of the natural language aspect...

In considering doing what you're doing I've been concerned (perhaps wrongly) that there might be another edit article link on a tested page (now or in the future) and the test doesn't account for that.

I guess I was more curious as to what you thought about the Cuke step using the same code that will (likely) be used to generate the on-page link (i.e. "edit_article_path article").

To that end and to remove the article_name bit from the equation I guess you could consider something like:

When /^I choose to edit the article$/ do
  article = @article # assigned in earlier step
  find("//a[@href='#{edit_article_path article}']").click
end