Problems with behat + mink - kohana

Question

I'm trying to install behat + mink (on kohana framework, not symfony, I'm putting behat into the modules folder - I'm writting this just in case, but I guess that's not what causes my problem).
I am having the same search.feature file as it is in behat documentation, I'm changing features/bootstrap class into the:
<?php
use Behat\Behat\Context\ClosuredContextInterface,
Behat\Behat\Context\TranslatedContextInterface,
Behat\Behat\Context\BehatContext,
Behat\Behat\Exception\PendingException;
use Behat\Gherkin\Node\PyStringNode,
Behat\Gherkin\Node\TableNode;
use Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkContext;
/**
* Features context.
*/
class FeatureContext extends MinkContext
{
}
And when I type "behat" in the CLI I get the following error: Call to a member function getSession() on a non object in .....RawMinkContext.php on line 80.
I've read somewhere that it's the behat.yml file which causes this error. I think the right thing to do is to create new behat.yml file in the root of the installed behat folder and put this code inside:
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
base_url: http://wikipedia.org
goutte: ~
selenium2: ~
paths:
features: features
bootstrap: features/bootstrap
annotations:
paths:
features: features/annotations
closures:
paths:
features: features/closures
But of couse it gives me the same error. I've tried a lot of configurations: copying only extensions part, changing default into context, copying the same content into three other behat.yml files (vendor/behat/behat, and vendor/behat/monk, and vendor/behat/monk-ententions) - none works.
Can someone tell me what's the right way to set this? Maybe someone here also had problems with that...
BTW. When I installed behat withough goutte, only with selenium2 driver, I was getting errors that goutte is not installed. But when I installed it with goutte, I was getting errors that there's no fabpot/goutte directory (or fapbot/, I don't remember, but I guess it was the first one :D), so I deleted everything and reinstalled behat with the following composer.json file, maybe this also has something to do with this error:
{
"name": "behat/mink-browserkit-driver",
"description": "Symfony2 BrowserKit driver for Mink framework",
"keywords": ["Symfony2", "testing", "browser"],
"homepage": "http://mink.behat.org/",
"type": "mink-driver",
"license": "MIT",
"authors": [
{
"name": "Konstantin Kudryashov",
"email": "ever.zet#gmail.com",
"homepage": "http://everzet.com"
}
],
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.1",
"symfony/browser-kit": ">=2.0.0,<2.2.0",
"symfony/dom-crawler": ">=2.0.0,<2.2.0",
"behat/behat": "2.4.*#stable",
"behat/mink": "1.4.*#stable",
"behat/mink-extension": "*",
"behat/mink-goutte-driver": "*",
"behat/mink-selenium2-driver": "*"
},
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"autoload": {
"psr-0": {
"Behat\\Mink\\Driver": "src/"
}
},
"config": {
"bin-dir": "bin/"
}
}

Answer 1

The recommended way to install Behat+Mink for anything, not just Kohana, is via Composer. See http://docs.behat.org/quick_intro.html for instructions. The autoload clause you have in your composer.json is not required.
As for your modules attempt, KO3.2 does not yet have the ability to load PSR-0 and so putting it in modules will not allow it to be loaded correctly.
Don't randomly copy your behat.yml - you only need one copy in your project root. If you are worried, you can explicitly load your behat.yml via bin/behat -c /path/to/behat.yml
With your composer.json set up correctly to have mink dependencies, you can then just do bin/behat -dl to verify mink works.
You can then do bin/behat --init to create your features filestructure.
This will create a FeatureContext which overrides Mink's definitions, so add
require_once __DIR__.'/../../vendor/autoload.php';
and change the class definition to:
class FeatureContext extends Behat\MinkExtension\Context\MinkContext
in your features/bootstrap/FeatureContext.php file.
Everything should work as expected now. I recently did a Behat+Mink+KO3 setup, feel free to see how I did it here: https://github.com/Moult/Eadrax/commit/b5dd813c92b82aea29eea13b5a30bae170aa57e6