Grappling with the best way to capture our client's requirements in an expressive (and agile way), we are giving Cucumber a serious consideration. I wont go over the ins & outs of Cucumber, as there are plenty of resources already available. Here's a brief of the steps that I followed (and some of the issues I ran into), which should prove useful if you are doing something similar. h4. Install the Cucumber gem @sudo gem install cucumber@ If you're also having trouble with "gem install" (mirror server timeouts), wget the .gem, and build the gem yourself h4. Getting Cucumber to talk to Selenium Follow the steps in "Aslaks Setup":http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/setting-up-selenium h4. Install Webrat @sudo gem install webrat@ h4. Start the Selenium RC server selenium Cucumber comes with 2 trivial examples, which you can run; h4. Running the sample Cucumber + Selenium test cucumber ../selenium/features/ Ensure this works first before trying the Webrat test below; h4. Running the sample Cucumber + Selenium + Webrat test To run the example test which includes Webrat, you can also use the rakefile supplied; @../examples/selenium_webrat]$ rake features --trace@ Jackpot Winner! or not. For me at least. I hit the wall with a timeout error, which is probably some missing Webrat config; Note: if you are also having trouble with timeouts, at time of writing there was an "unpatched bug":https://webrat.lighthouseapp.com/projects/10503/tickets/205-patch-timeout-parameter-passed-incorrectly-to-selenium in Webrat, which can be fixed by a monkey patch. For me this solved one issue, but the above remained. But I personally prefer the syntactic sugar that Webrat gives me, so its worth getting this working. click_button('btnG') versus @browser.click 'btnG' h4. Other Methods In my quest for Cucumber Glory, I did stumble across these useful, related resources; # "How To Setup RSpec, Cucumber, Webrat, RCov and Autotest on Leopard":http://www.claytonlz.com/index.php/2009/04/how-to-setup-rspec-cucumber-webrat-rcov-and-autotest-on-leopard/ # "Testing Non-Ruby Applications with Cucumber":http://www.vitarara.org/cms/testing_non-ruby_applications_with_cucumber # "Using Cucumber for Acceptance Testing":http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2009/03/using-cucumber-for-acceptance-testing/ # "Cucumber...with webrat mechanized sessions":http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2009/03/using-cucumber-for-acceptance-testing/comment-page-1/#comment-6101 ## And oelmekkis "env.rb":http://gist.github.com/82813 h4. My currently installed Gems FYI my gem versions at time of writing;