Fredrick recently asked on the swtbot newsgroup:

My goal is to be able to write some user acceptance tests (using Cucumber) to be able to tests some of my Eclipse plug-ins.

Cucumber is a BDD framework written in (J)ruby. It executes plain text files as functional tests. As a first step, the goal was to be able to print a simple ‘hello world’:

This required being able to bundle jruby with the necessary gems, the jruby jar is already OSGi-fied, so creating a manifest was not required.

First drop in the jruby-complete.jar that we just created inside the target eclipse’s plugins directory.

Then create an eclipse application with the following in it:

public class CucumberRunner implements IApplication {

    public Object start(IApplicationContext context) throws Exception {
        Bundle bundle = Platform.getBundle("org.jruby.jruby");

        URL jrubyHome = FileLocator.toFileURL(bundle.getEntry("/META-INF/jruby.home"));

        RubyInstanceConfig config = new RubyInstanceConfig();
        config.setJRubyHome(jrubyHome.toString());
        Ruby runtime = JavaEmbedUtils.initialize(new ArrayList(), config);
        RubyRuntimeAdapter evaler = JavaEmbedUtils.newRuntimeAdapter();
        evaler.eval(runtime, "p 'Hello, Eclipse World'");
        JavaEmbedUtils.terminate(runtime);

        return EXIT_OK;
    }

    public void stop() {
        // do nothing
    }
}

Hello, Eclipse World

Now all we needed was to be able to execute the cucumber executable instead of printing hello world

Import the cucumber plugin with a sample calculator to execute it:

Cucumber Output