.. _reference-cli:

################
the command line
################

Lettuce is used as a command line utility, it means that currently the
only way to use it is through a shell.

Once in a shell, you can use lettuce in 2 ways:

* in the :ref:`usual way <tutorial-simple>`

Which means having the simple features/step_definitions folder
somewhere in your project

* within a :ref:`Django-powered <recipes-django-lxml>` project.

The difference between them is that within Django you have more
options, but both ways have these common options:

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running a specific feature file
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   user@machine:~/projects/myproj$ lettuce path/to/some/file.feature


With this option, your feature can even be out of the default ``features`` folder.

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running only some scenarios of a specific feature file
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   user@machine:~/projects/myproj$ lettuce path/to/some/file.feature -s 3,5,9


This will run the scenarios 3, 5 and 9 from file ``path/to/some/file.feature``

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running only some scenarios all feature files
*********************************************

Maybe you can find it senseless, but it works like that, and does not hurt so far :)

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   user@machine:~/projects/myproj$ lettuce -s 3,5,9

Yeah, guess what?

This command will run the scenarios 3, 5 and 9 of all feature files living on ``myproj/features`` folder.

verbosity levels
================

level 1 - dots for each feature
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   user@machine:~/projects/myproj$ lettuce --verbosity=1

This is lettuce's minimum verbosity level. It shows dots for each step
run, regardless of what scenario or what feature is currently running.

For example, if you have a feature that looks like:

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   Feature: Manipulate strings
     Scenario: Uppercased strings
       Given I have the string "lettuce leaves"
       When I put it in upper case
       Then I see the string is "LETTUCE LEAVES"


The output will be:

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   user@machine:~/projects/myproj$ lettuce -v 1
   ...

   1 feature (1 passed)
   1 scenario (1 passed)
   3 steps (3 passed)

level 2 - scenario names
------------------------

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   user@machine:~/projects/myproj$ lettuce --verbosity=2

In this mode, lettuce will print each scenario name that is currently being ran, followed by **OK**, **FAILED** or **ERROR**
depending of the status of the steps within that scenario.

For example, if you have a feature that looks like:

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   Feature: Manipulate strings
     Scenario: Uppercased strings
       Given I have the string "lettuce leaves"
       When I put it in upper case
       Then I see the string is "LETTUCE LEAVES"

     Scenario: basic math
       Given I sum 2 and 5
       Then I see the result is 9

The output will be:

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   user@machine:~/projects/myproj$ lettuce -v 2
   Uppercased strings ... OK
   basic math ... FAILED

   1 feature (1 passed)
   2 scenarios (2 passed)
   5 steps (4 passed)

level 3 - full feature print, but colorless
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   user@machine:~/projects/myproj$ lettuce --verbosity=3

This mode is a lot more verbose than the later one.
It prints every single feature, with really useful information like:

* the relative path to the feature file being ran, and the current line in that file
* the relative path to the step definition responsible for the step being ran, also followed by the current line
* inline tracebacks when some feature fails
* "ready-to-use" snippets for undefined steps

For example, let's say you have the feature below, but only the step
``Given I have the string "lettuce leaves"`` is defined

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   Feature: Manipulate strings
     Scenario: Uppercased strings
       Given I have the string "lettuce leaves"
       When I put it in upper case
       Then I see the string is "LETTUCE LEAVES"

Your output will look like:

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    user@machine:~/projects/myproj$ lettuce -v 2

    Feature: Manipulate strings                   # features/strings.feature:1

      Scenario: Uppercased strings                # features/strings.feature:2
        Given I have the string "lettuce leaves"  # features/step_definitions/example-steps.py:5
        When I put it in upper case               # features/strings.feature:4 (undefined)
        Then I see the string is "LETTUCE LEAVES" # features/strings.feature:5 (undefined)

    1 feature (0 passed)
    1 scenario (0 passed)
    3 steps (2 undefined, 1 passed)

    You can implement step definitions for undefined steps with these snippets:

    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    from lettuce import step

    @step(u'When I put it in upper case')
    def when_i_put_it_in_upper_case(step):
        assert False, 'This step must be implemented'
    @step(u'Then I see the string is "(.*)"')
    def then_i_see_the_string_is_group1(step, group1):
        assert False, 'This step must be implemented'

level 4 - full feature print, but colorful
------------------------------------------

This mode is almost **exactly** the same of level 3, the difference is
that it's colorful.

.. image:: ../tutorial/screenshot6.png


.. note::

   If you are going to put lettuce running in a
   Continuous-Integration_ server, like Hudson_. You may choose the
   levels 1, 2 or 3, so that the output won't look messy.

getting help from shell
=======================

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   user@machine:~/projects/myproj$ lettuce -h


Shows all the options described here.

.. _Continuous-Integration: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
.. _Hudson: http://hudson-ci.org/
