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1. Create a new rails app
Rails twatter

1b. Initialise git
git init
git add . 
git commit -a -m 'Initial Comit, empty rails app'

2. generate cucumber files
script/generate cucumber

3. Generate RSpec files
script/generate rspec

4. Create your first cucumber feature
go to /features/
In /features/,  create a new file called 'create_message.feature' using your favorite text editor

Feature: Users can post messages to Twatter 
  In order communicate with other Twatter users
  As a user
  I want to be able to easily add new twat posts 
  
  
  Scenario: Create a message  
  Given Im on the twats page
	When I fill in "Message" with "First Post LOL"
	And I press "Post"
	Then I see "First Post LOL" under messages

4b. Update git 
git commit -a -m 'Added first feature'

5. Run Tests, watch them fail.
(The malteaser challeng! More you 'shoot and aim' the more chocolate you get)

Rake cucumber
You will get an error along these lines:
schema.rb doesn't exist yet. Run "rake db:migrate" to create it then try again. If you do not intend to use a database, you should instead alter /home/richie/projects/twatter/config/environment.rb to prevent active_record from loading: config.frameworks -= [ :active_record ]

Can you guess what to do next?
rake db:migrate

6. Now run cucumber again
Rake cucumber

You should get a bunch of coloured output to the command line. 

Find the first error at the top of the output:

  Scenario: Create a message                       # features/create_a_message.feature:7
    Given Im on the twats page                     # features/create_a_message.feature:8
      Undefined step: "Im on the twats page" (Cucumber::Undefined)
      features/create_a_message.feature:8:in `Given Im on the twats page'

7. Now we need to do the minimum to get this to pass:
Basically, lets explain to cucumber what 'twats page' means.

goto /features/support open paths.rb

    when /the home\s?page/         #existing
      '/'                          #existing
    
    when /the new twat page/
      new_twat_path

8. Run cucmber again

Rake cucumber

  Scenario: Create a message                       # features/create_a_message.feature:7
    Given Im on the new twat page                  # features/create_a_message.feature:8
      Undefined step: "Im on the new twat page" (Cucumber::Undefined)
      features/create_a_message.feature:8:in `Given Im on the new twat page'

Now we have defined 'new_twats_path' we need to setup the routes so that they go somewhere.
twatter/config open routes.rb

You can remove everything from the routes file we don't need any of it for now.

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
  map.resources :twats
end

9. Rake cucumber
Create new twats controller

script/generate rspec_controller twats