How can I find the page object of the page watir is currently on?

Question

Context:

I'm trying to make reusable step definitions that click on page objects on the current page, e.g. (cucumber step def follows):

When(/^the user clicks the "([^"]*)" button$/) do |button|

      click_button = button.downcase.gsub(" ","_")
      @current_page #somehow get current page object on this line
      @current_page.click_button

end

Problem statement:

I can't find anything that returns the current page object.

An explanation for why the obvious solution didn't work:

I thought @current_page was already there as something I could use. I looked in the source code for page object, and the variable @current_page does exist. Not sure how to use it if I can...

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BTW, in this case, I have a bunch of testers that can write Gherkin but not necessarily step definitions. We are trying to rapidly finish a bunch of regression tests for an in house app with an unchanging interface.

Answer 1

This is somewhat at odds with what page-object is trying to provide.

Page object attempts to provide well named actions for interacting with a specific page. If you are wanting to make something that works in general against any page, it will be much easier to write it with watir-webdriver directly.

That said, I agree that a specification based heavily on implementation like that is likely to change. I also would add that it doesn't add much value. I would only continue down this path if you understand and accept that you are using cucumber as a test templating tool instead of a requirements communication tool.