Meanwhile, Mark Richardson gets a bunch of bull published, which manages the difficult feat of summarily insulting both camps.

This post explains how you can configure it to write specifications for a Java project using Maven and JRuby.

1. Add JRuby as a dependency in your POM:

<project>
    ...
   <dependencies>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.jruby</groupId>
           <artifactId>jruby-complete</artifactId>
           <version>1.1.4</version>
       </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   ...
</project>

2. Configure the exec-maven-plugin to run cucumber during integration-test phase.

<project>
...
    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.1</version>
        <executions>
            <execution>
                <id>run-cucumber</id>
                <phase>integration-test</phase>
                <goals>
                    <goal>java</goal>
                </goals>
                <configuration>
                    <mainClass>org.jruby.Main</mainClass>
                    <arguments>
                        <argument>-S</argument>
                        <argument>rake</argument>
                        <argument>features</argument>
                    </arguments>
                </configuration>
            </execution>
        </executions>
    </plugin>
...
</project>

3. Configure a profile to install cucumber if it is not already locally available:

<project>
...
    <profiles>
        <profile>
            <id>first.time</id>
            <activation>
                <file>
                    <missing>${user.home}/.jruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.1.8</missing>
                </file>
            </activation>
            
            <build>
                <plugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>1.1</version>
                        <executions>
                            <execution>
                                <id>install-diff-lcs-gem</id>
                                <phase>initialize</phase>
                                <goals>
                                    <goal>java</goal>
                                </goals>
                                <configuration>
                                    <mainClass>org.jruby.Main</mainClass>
                                    <arguments>
                                        <argument>-S</argument>
                                        <argument>gem</argument>
                                        <argument>install</argument>
                                        <argument>diff-lcs</argument>
                                        <argument>--no-ri</argument>
                                        <argument>--no-rdoc</argument>
                                        <argument>--no-test</argument>
                                    </arguments>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                            <execution>
                                <id>install-hoe-gem</id>
                                <phase>initialize</phase>
                                <goals>
                                    <goal>java</goal>
                                </goals>
                                <configuration>
                                    <mainClass>org.jruby.Main</mainClass>
                                    <arguments>
                                        <argument>-S</argument>
                                        <argument>gem</argument>
                                        <argument>install</argument>
                                        <argument>hoe</argument>
                                        <argument>--no-ri</argument>
                                        <argument>--no-rdoc</argument>
                                        <argument>--no-test</argument>
                                    </arguments>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                            <execution>
                                <id>install-cucumber-gem</id>
                                <phase>initialize</phase>
                                <goals>
                                    <goal>java</goal>
                                </goals>
                                <configuration>
                                    <mainClass>org.jruby.Main</mainClass>
                                    <arguments>
                                        <argument>-S</argument>
                                        <argument>gem</argument>
                                        <argument>install</argument>
                                        <argument>cucumber</argument>
                                        <argument>--no-ri</argument>
                                        <argument>--no-rdoc</argument>
                                        <argument>--no-test</argument>
                                    </arguments>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                        </executions>
                    </plugin>
                </plugins>
            </build>
        </profile>
    </profiles>
...
</project>

4. Create a file named Rakefile as a sibling of your pom.xml, with the following contents:

require 'cucumber/rake/task'
Cucumber::Rake::Task.new(:features) do |t|
  t.cucumber_opts = "--format pretty"
end

5. Running

mvn integration-test

should run cucumber now on your project. Cucumber looks for feature specifications to run in the features directory.

Please see this maven project for a test project configured with cucumber.

First, install GHC and HGL as:

sudo apt-get install ghc6
sudo apt-get install libghc6-hgl-dev

Then, copy the following code to a file simple.hs somewhere on the disk. This code is from Chapter 3 of the book.

import Graphics.SOE
main0
   = runGraphics $
     do w <- openWindow "My First Graphics Program" (300, 300)
        drawInWindow w (text (100, 200) "HelloGraphicsWorld")
        k <- getKey w
        closeWindow w

Launch GHC interpreter and load the code into it.

$ ghci
   ___         ___ _
  / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
 / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.6.1, for Haskell 98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type : ? for help.

Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Prelude> :l /path/to/simple.hs
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( /path/to/simple.hs, interpreted )
Ok, modules loaded: Main.

Now, run the application as:

*Main> main0
Loading package X11-1.2.1 ... linking ... done.
Loading package HGL-3.1.1 ... linking ... done.
*Main>

If everything is set up properly, this should show a GUI window with the text ‘HelloGraphicsWorld’ written on it. Pressing any key should dismiss this window.

1. Edit NETBEANS_HOME/etc/netbeans.conf
2. Add --laf javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel -J-Dswing.aatext=true -J-Dswing.metalTheme=ocean to netbeans_default_options variable

Thats it!

One spectator sitting in the Bill O’Reilly stand, Craig Woodbury, said Harbhajan also spat towards the crowd after they called him “a wanker”. “He definitely made the monkey gestures and he spat towards us,” Woodbury said. “It was a bit disgraceful really, especially after what happened here in the Test match [with Symonds].

“There are a lot of young people sitting here and it was inappropriate. He is a role model to a lot of people. If he wants respect he has to treat others with respect.

“He is always going to cop it from the crowd but he is a professional sportsman and he has got to expect that.”

Am I the only one amused by Craig’s delusions? The older ones accompanying the ‘young people’ repeatedly abuse a visitor – settings up perfect role models on how to treat visitors.

 It’s not that we tip waiters because they are paid so little; they are paid so little because they can expect to make up the difference in tips.

Streambox folks say that some channels are not working and they are working on it. But from what I have seen so far, the only part working on their website is the credit card billing I am not even able to open a ticket with them as their issue tracking system goes into a loop between pages. I should have known when they were not able to give me a preview of any of the channels before I signed up.

So if you are considering taking a new Streambox TV account here is a friendly piece of advise – wait until they are able to show a decent preview of the channels you want to watch.