Wally

Wally is a web-based Cucumber viewer and navigator.

About

The first cut of a feature is collabatively written; but it then seems to become the property of developers, who commit it to a version control system.

The product owner or business analyst usually does not want to use an IDE or VCS client to view requiements. They also want to search or group features and scenarios.

What's wrong with Relish?

Many of the ideas have been borrowed from Matt Wynne's Relish product, but we;

Didn't want

To sign-in

Wanted to

Use it through mobile devices
Easily group features and scenarios by tags
Count features and tags
Include a project progress bar (based on tags)

Installation

Install mongodb and ensure it is running (e.g. '~ $ ./mongodb-xxxxx-xxxx-x.x.x/bin/mongod')
gem install wally
you might also want mongo_mapper (gem install mongo_mapper)

Usage

create a '.wally' file and enter any authentication text you like (echo myPassword > .wally)
run wally server, in the same dir that you put the .wally file (wally server)
check http://localhost:4567/
import your features (from local dir) wally push http://localhost:4567/projects/<project-name> <feature-dir>

Deleting projects

wally destroy http://localhost:4567/projects/<project-name>

Wally?

If you walk in to a British fish shop and ask for a wally you'll receive a pickled gherkin.

Heroku

Add this to a config.ru:

require "wally"
run Sinatra::Application

Add this to a Gemfile:

source :rubygems
gem "wally"

Run bundle in that directory, commit this all to a git repo and push to Heroku!

lenny/wally