Unencumbered V0.1.2: Write Cucumber step definitions in D

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 14:10:07 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 24/04/14 09:19, Atila Neves wrote:
>
>> I did, yeah, that's why I asked that question recently about 
>> calling D
>> from Ruby.
>
> Right, that was you.
>
>> I also thought of using Thrift and played about with it but
>> in the end decided that the simplest option is to just use the 
>> wire
>> protocol. It even reports back D exception information back, 
>> so the only
>> real thing I can see that's missing is the snippet suggestions 
>> when the
>> steps aren't defined yet.
>
> If Ruby is embedded Cucumber could be embedded as well, 
> perhaps. Then you could get an executable without dependencies.

Or I could carry on implementing all the Cucumber features and 
end up with an executable that does everything the Ruby version 
does. I'm happy with what I've got now though, but the embedding 
thing is interesting. I just decided that embedding was too much 
work.

Atila