Integrating Cucumber Capybara Smoketest with Capistrano

cucumber-capybara-capistrano.feature

@test_deploy @javascript                                  # @test_deploy tag setup in cucumber.yml profile, @javascript runs in capybara-webkit
Feature: Smoke Test
  In order to test that the application is deployed
  As a caring developer
  I want to check a few features of the site
  
  Background:
    Given we are in the deploy environment
    
  Scenario: Logging in and checking basic navigation
    When I go to the home page
    Then I should see "Welcome"
    And I should see most recent revision
    When I follow "Sign in"
    And I fill in "Email" with "[email protected]"
    And I fill in "Password" with "h6$reymmeErt2"
    And I press "Sign in"
    Then I should see "Signed in successfully." 

cucumber.yml

# note DEPLOY_ENVIRONMENT environment variable
test_deploy: --tags @test_deploy --format pretty DEPLOY_ENVIRONMENT=true

deploy.rb

after "deploy:restart", :do_smoke_test

task :do_smoke_test do
  puts `bundle exec cucumber features/ -p test_deploy`   # would be nicer output with p3open
end

deploy_steps.rb

Given /^we are in the deploy environment/ do
  pending unless ENV['DEPLOY_ENVIRONMENT']    # another check to prevent this from executing during our normal test runs

  # Set capybara config to execute against remote environment
  # In my case I'm using the amazing capybara-webkit gem.  This is actually in env.rb for me, your mileage may vary
  # Note: Default driver will not execute remote sites
  Capybara.javascript_driver = :webkit
  Capybara.run_server = false
  Capybara.app_host = "http://example.com"    # point to remote server we will test
end

# Contents of cap REVISION is included in my views, test to ensure we've really deployed the latest
Then /^I should see most recent revision$/ do
  revision = `git ls-remote | head -n 1`.split[0]
  page.should have_content(revision)
end