Creating and using page objects

Alister Scott blogged about an idea for creating a factory to create instances of page objects. In the past I have blogged about page objects returning page objects. After a lot of contemplation, I am completely in the Alister camp. page-object now supports this approach as well.

PageFactory

A module named PageFactory provides this ability. This method has two methods.

def visit_page(page_class, &block)
def on_page(page_class, visit=false, &block)

Let's take a look at how you would use these method in your cucumber scripts.

Given /^I am on the registration page$/ do
  visit_page RegistrationPage
end