If you’re writing Cucumber tests using Webrat and Mechanize to test a site, and you are behind a proxy server, you can do something like this to tell mechanize about it in your webrat_steps.rb file:
When /^I am on (.+)$/ do |page_name|
webrat.adapter.mechanize.set_proxy('proxy.host.com',8080)
visit path_to(page_name)
end
I’m sure there’s a tidier way to do this, but it’s quick and it works with the following gem versions:
Cucumber 0.3.11
Webrat 0.5.3
Mechanize 0.9.3