acceptance.helper.rb

require 'eg.helper'
require 'capybara'
require 'capybara/rails'
require 'capybara/dsl'

# Capybara.default_driver = :rails

eg.helpers do
  include Capybara

  def login_as(email, password)
    fill_in 'Email', :with => email
    fill_in 'Password', :with => password

    click_button("Log in")
  end

  def check_flash(type, message)
    Assert(find(:css, ".flash.#{type}").text.include?(message))
  end

  def check_admin_flash(type, message)
    Assert(find(:css, ".message.#{type}").text.include?(message))
  end

  def admin?
    Assert(find(:css, 'title').text.include?("Compliance Hound Administration"))
  end

  # etc
end

eg.helper.rb

ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)

require 'pp'
require 'exemplor'

eg.helpers do
  def user(name,role)
    ... factory up a user
  end
end

login.eg.rb

require 'eg.acceptance.helper'

eg.setup do
  User.delete_all
  Location.delete_all

  user('sam','admin')
end

eg 'visit admin page as an administrator and login' do
  visit '/admin/tasks'
  login_as("sam", "password")

  check_admin_flash("success", "Signed in successfully")
  admin?
end

eg 'another eg' do
  body # a string of the page
  page.response_headers
  page.status_code
  page.current_url
  # etc
end

Rakefile

task :eg => %w[eg:examples eg:acceptance]

namespace :eg do
  ExampleRoot = Rails.root+'examples'

  task :examples => :test_env do
    in_example_root do
      FileList.new(ExampleRoot+'*.eg.rb').each {|eg| run_eg eg }
    end
  end

  task :acceptance => :test_env do
    in_example_root do
      FileList.new(ExampleRoot+'acceptance/*.eg.rb').each {|eg| run_eg eg }
    end
  end

  task :test_env do
    ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = ::RAILS_ENV = 'test'
    Rake::Task['environment'].invoke
  end

  def run_eg(eg)
    print "running #{eg_name = File.basename(eg,'.eg.rb')} examples"

    if eg[/acceptance/]
      puts " (acceptance)"
    else
      puts
    end

    begin
      ruby eg
    rescue
      puts "#{eg_name} examples failed"
    end

    puts
  end

  def in_example_root(&blk)
    Dir.chdir(ExampleRoot,&blk)
  end

end