I'm looking to introduce Jbehave in my project, and I am preparing a simple POC. Using: jbehave 3.9.3, ant 1.9.2, IDE eclipse kepler. I can successfully run the tests from within Eclipse (I've also annotated my test class with @RunWith(JUnitReportingRunner.class) ).

I have, however, some issues when I try running the same via ant.

this is the ant file I'm using:

    <property name="src.dir" value="${basedir}/bdd/jbtest"/>
    <property name="jbehave.version"  value="3.9.3"/>

    <target name="clean">
        <delete dir="target" />
    </target>

    <target name="setup">
        <artifact:dependencies filesetId="dependency.fileset" useScope="test">
            <dependency groupId="org.jbehave" artifactId="jbehave-ant" version="${jbehave.version}"/>           
            <dependency groupId="org.jbehave" artifactId="jbehave-core" version="${jbehave.version}" classifier="resources" type="zip"/>           
            <dependency groupId="org.jbehave.site" artifactId="jbehave-site-resources" version="3.1.1" type="zip"/>           
        </artifact:dependencies>

        <mkdir dir="target" />
        <mkdir dir="target/classes" />
        <mkdir dir="target/lib" />
        <copy todir="target/lib">
            <fileset refid="dependency.fileset" />
            <mapper type="flatten" />
        </copy>
        <!--  copy todir="${src.dir}">
            <fileset dir="../core/src/main/java">       
            </fileset>
        </copy> -->
        <copy todir="target/classes">
            <fileset dir="${src.dir}">
                <include name="**/*.story" />
                <include name="**/*.properties" />
                <include name="**/*.xml" />
            </fileset>
        </copy>



        <path id="story.classpath">
            <fileset dir="${basedir}/lib" includes="**/*.jar" />
            <pathelement location="${basedir}/bin" />
        </path>
        <classloader classpathref="story.classpath" />

        <pathconvert targetos="unix" property="story.classpath.unix" refid="story.classpath">
        </pathconvert>
        <echo>Using classpath: ${story.classpath.unix}</echo>

    </target>

    <target name="compile" depends="setup">
        <javac includeantruntime="false" srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="bin" debug="on" debuglevel="lines,source" includes="**/*.java,**/*.xml">
            <classpath refid="story.classpath" />
        </javac>
    </target>

    <target name="reports-resources" depends="setup">
        <unzip src="${org.jbehave:jbehave-core:zip:resources}" dest="${basedir}/target/jbehave/view/" />
        <unzip src="${org.jbehave.site:jbehave-site-resources:zip}" dest="${basedir}/target/jbehave/view/" />
    </target>


    <target name="run-stories-as-embeddables" depends="compile, reports-resources">
        <taskdef name="runStoriesAsEmbeddables" classname="org.jbehave.ant.RunStoriesAsEmbeddables" classpathref="story.classpath" />
        <runStoriesAsEmbeddables sourceDirectory="${src.dir}" includes="**/Myjb.java" excludes="**/examples*" batch="false" ignoreFailureInStories="true" ignoreFailureInView="true" generateViewAfterStories="true" 
            systemproperties="java.awt.headless=true,project.dir=${basedir}" />
    </target>


    <target name="run-stories-as-paths" depends="compile, reports-resources" >
        <taskdef name="runStoriesAsPaths" classname="org.jbehave.ant.RunStoriesAsPaths" classpathref="story.classpath" />
        <runStoriesAsPaths sourceDirectory="${src.dir}" 
                includes="**/*.story" batch="false" ignoreFailureInStories="true" ignoreFailureInView="true" generateViewAfterStories="true" 
                systemproperties="java.awt.headless=true,project.dir=${basedir}" 
        >    
        </runStoriesAsPaths>                

    </target>

    <target name="stepdoc" depends="compile">
        <taskdef name="reportStepdocs" classname="org.jbehave.ant.ReportStepdocs" classpathref="story.classpath" />
        <reportStepdocs embedderClass="org.jbehave.examples.core.CoreEmbedder" />

                 <taskdef name="reportRenderer" classname="org.jbehave.ant.ReportRendererTask"  classpathref="story.classpath" />
    <reportRenderer outputDirectory="${basedir}/target/jbehave"
      formats="txt,html" templateProperties="defaultFormats=stats" 
      ignoreFailure="true"/>
    </target>

    <target name="build" depends="run-stories-as-paths,stepdoc" />

</project>

issue #1: I can't specify the format

run-stories-as-paths:
[runStoriesAsPaths] Running stories as paths using embedder Embedder[storyMapper=StoryMapper,storyRunner=StoryRunner,embedderMonitor=AntEmbedderMonitor,classLoader=EmbedderClassLoader[urls=[],parent=java.net.URLClassLoader@1a8fa0f0],embedderControls=UnmodifiableEmbedderControls[EmbedderControls[batch=false,skip=false,generateViewAfterStories=true,ignoreFailureInStories=true,ignoreFailureInView=true,verboseFailures=false,verboseFiltering=false,storyTimeoutInSecs=300,failOnStoryTimeout=false,threads=1]],embedderFailureStrategy=<null>,configuration=org.jbehave.core.configuration.MostUsefulConfiguration@5556d74f,candidateSteps=<null>,stepsFactory=<null>,metaFilters=<null>,systemProperties={java.awt.headless=true, project.dir=D:danielewsjbtest},executorService=<null>,executorServiceCreated=false,storyManager=<null>]
[runStoriesAsPaths] Found story paths: [Example.story, Sample.story]
[runStoriesAsPaths] Processing system properties {java.awt.headless=true, project.dir=D:danielewsjbtest}
[runStoriesAsPaths] System property 'java.awt.headless' set to 'true'
[runStoriesAsPaths] System property 'project.dir' set to 'D:danielewsjbtest'
[runStoriesAsPaths] Using controls UnmodifiableEmbedderControls[EmbedderControls[batch=false,skip=false,generateViewAfterStories=true,ignoreFailureInStories=true,ignoreFailureInView=true,verboseFailures=false,verboseFiltering=false,storyTimeoutInSecs=300,failOnStoryTimeout=false,threads=1]]
[runStoriesAsPaths] Generating reports view to 'D:\daniele\ws\jbtest\target\jbehave' using formats '[]' and view properties '{navigator=ftl/jbehave-navigator.ftl, views=ftl/jbehave-views.ftl, reports=ftl/jbehave-reports-with-totals.ftl, nonDecorated=ftl/jbehave-report-non-decorated.ftl, decorated=ftl/jbehave-report-decorated.ftl, maps=ftl/jbehave-maps.ftl}'
[runStoriesAsPaths] Reports view generated with 0 stories (of which 0 pending) containing 0 scenarios (of which 0 pending)

I did not find a way to pass the format as I'm doing in the java class and that get's ignored, so it does not generate any report.

issue #2 story finding exception

when I run

ant -f jb_ant.xml -lib lib run-stories-as-paths

just after the output shown above, I get an exception

BUILD FAILED
D:\daniele\ws\jbtest\jb_ant.xml:74: org.jbehave.core.io.StoryResourceNotFound: Story path 'Example.story' not found by class loader EmbedderClassLoader[urls=[],parent=java.net.URLClassLoader@1a8fa0f0]
    at org.jbehave.core.io.LoadFromClasspath.resourceAsStream(LoadFromClasspath.java:44)
    at org.jbehave.core.io.LoadFromClasspath.loadResourceAsText(LoadFromClasspath.java:29)
    at org.jbehave.core.io.LoadFromClasspath.loadStoryAsText(LoadFromClasspath.java:38)
    at org.jbehave.core.embedder.StoryRunner.storyOfPath(StoryRunner.java:192)
    at org.jbehave.core.embedder.StoryManager.storyOfPath(StoryManager.java:49)
    at org.jbehave.core.embedder.StoryManager.runningStoriesAsPaths(StoryManager.java:101)
    at org.jbehave.core.embedder.StoryManager.runStories(StoryManager.java:78)
    at org.jbehave.core.embedder.Embedder.runStoriesAsPaths(Embedder.java:203)
    at org.jbehave.ant.RunStoriesAsPaths.execute(RunStoriesAsPaths.java:16)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:292)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor8.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:435)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:456)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1393)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1364)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1248)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:851)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:235)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)

which is puzzling me because jbehave had just listed the found the story while executing the task.

I can post the both the Java classes and stories if this may help diagnose the problem.

Any ideas what am I doing wrong?