lettuce

lettuce

Version 0.2.23 - kryptonite

On release names

Lettuce release names will be inspired by any green stuff.

Barium: In form of "barium nitrate" is commonly used to make green fireworks. Such a good name for a first version :)

What

Lettuce is a BDD tool for python, 100% inspired on cucumber.

Motivation

• Cucumber makes Ruby even more sexy. Python needed something like it.
• Testing must be funny and easy.
• Most python developers code in python, not ruby.
• Ruby has Capistrano, Python has Fabric. Ruby has cucumber, Python has lettuce.
• I personally don't like mixing many languages in small projects. Keeping all in python is better.
• I love python, and ever did. But I also ever missed something that make writing tests easier and funnier.
• I like nose, which is a unittest pythonic framework. However, as the project I work on grows, so do the tests, and it becomes harder to understand them.

Documentation

See full documentation on http://lettuce.it/

Dependencies

you will need to install these dependencies in order to hack lettuce :) all them are used within lettuce tests

you could use a virtualenv:

> mkvirtualenv lettuce
> workon lettuce
> pip install -r requirements.txt

note this uses virtualenvwrapper to save some virtualenv handling hassle. you can also use virtualenv the regular way.

or just install manually:

> sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

or do it really from scratch:

• nose

  [sudo] pip install nose

• mox

  [sudo] pip install mox

• sphinx

  [sudo] pip install sphinx

• lxml

  [sudo] pip install lxml

• tornado

  [sudo] pip install tornado

• django

  [sudo] pip install django

mailing list

for users

http://groups.google.com/group/lettuce-users

for developers

http://groups.google.com/group/lettuce-developers

Special thanks

• Cucumber crew, for creating such a AWESOME project, and for inspiring Lettuce.
• Tatiana for helping a lot with documentation.
• Django which documentation structure was borrowed.
• Andres Jaan Tack for his awesome contributions
• Erlis Vidal for creating a tutorial of how to install lettuce on windows.

Known issues

windows support

erlis have made a awesome job by making lettuce work on windows. He posted here how to install lettuce on windows.

License

<Lettuce - Behaviour Driven Development for python>
Copyright (C) <2010-2012>  Gabriel Falcão <[e-mail]>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.