Comments on: Cuke4Nuke: Cucumber for .NET Teams

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:53:38 +0000

@Marcel – I haven’t tried IronRuby since before it hit 1.0. I’ve heard performance is still an issue, but I haven’t confirmed. In any case, running Cucumber under IronRuby isn’t enough to write step definitions in a language other than Ruby (for example, C#). One day, we may do a version of Cuke4Nuke that uses IronRuby the way Cuke4Duke uses JRuby, but for now, I’m sticking with the current approach.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:40:48 +0000

Richard,
Thank you for your great posts.

Do you know if the performance is still in issue, now that we’re on IronRuby 1.0?

Regards,
M

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:50:55 +0000

@Michael – Not that I know of. We’ve talked about doing an in-process version of Cuke4Nuke using IronRuby the way Cuke4Duke uses JRuby, but AFAIK start up time is still an issue.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:18:58 +0000

Hello Richard,

I have a question about using IronRuby instead of MRI Ruby. Has anyone or have you attempted to use IronRuby for the Cuke4Nuke?

Thanks!

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:10:51 +0000

@Neil – The biggest difference is that Cuke4Nuke actually uses Cucumber as much as possible rather than reimplementing Cucumber in .NET. Quite often features are added to Cucumber that require no changes to Cuke4Nuke. Cuke4Nuke users get these features right away, while SpecFlow users have to wait until the new features are explicitly added to SpecFlow.

Cuke4Nuke doesn’t yet have support for table diffing, so SpecFlow has an advantage there, I believe. SpecFlow also seems to have Visual Studio integration.

Otherwise, in terms of day-to-day use, there’s probably little difference.

By: Neil Mosafi

Neil Mosafi — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:40:33 +0000

How is this different to SpecFlow?

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