Chap 2: fwiw, output of "cucumber features" omits actual snippets

when I run “cucumber features” from the command line in the hello directory, I get:

jenko@ubuntudesktop:~/myruby/RSpecBook/hello$ cucumber features
Feature: greeter says hello
    In order to start learning RSpec and Cucumber
    As a reader of a The RSpec Book
    I want a greeter to say Hello

  Scenario: greeter says hello           # features/greeter_says_hello.feature:5
    Given a greeter                      # features/greeter_says_hello.feature:6
    When I send it the greet message     # features/greeter_says_hello.feature:7
    Then it should say "Hello Cucumber!" # features/greeter_says_hello.feature:8

1 scenario (1 undefined)
3 steps (3 undefined)
0m0.003s

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

jenko@ubuntudesktop:~/myruby/RSpecBook/hello$ 

Note: no actual snippets, in contrast with the book which shows these:

Given /^a greeter$/ do
  pending
end

When /^I send it the greet message$/ do
  pending
end

Then /^it should say "([^\"]*)" $/ do |arg1|
  pending
end

Config:
ubuntu 9.04
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]
cucumber (0.3.99)

I am having the same exact problem, does anyone have a solution?

David it seems like Cucumber does not know what language you want to use until there is a step_definition file in place. So i just created a file called test.rb with the content of “test” inside the step_definitions folder and that worked fine.

I had the same problem and solved it by finding a copy of the file env.rb and made sure it was copied to the cb\support directory. The snippets then displayed.

This may introduce another error which you complains about “importenv” being deprecated.

I solved that by commenting out importenv in the env.rb file

And everything worked fine.

D

Unfortunately, Cucumber is moving really, really fast. The material on the book is based on cucumber-0.3.11, which is only a few months old. We’ll do our best to have the must up to date information about cucumber when the book goes final.

The particular change that caused this was that Cucumber now supports other programming languages, and it determines what language to write the snippets in by looking at files in the support directory. If it finds .rb files you get Ruby snippets. If there is nothing there, you get nothing.

There is a ticket about this in lighthouse: https://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16211/... – so it’s being addressed.

This got resolved in Cucumber btw.