Running single cucumber feature doesn't load step definitions

Question

I have a cucumber feature at features/object/create_object.feature. It passes when I execute all of my features with the 'cucumber' command. I'm trying to execute this feature by itself using these commands:

cucumber features/object/create_object.feature
rake features FEATURE=features/object/create_object.feature

However, all step definitions for this feature come up as undefined:

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I've also tried disabling the profile with "--no-profile", but to no avail. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I think you need to tell cucumber how to locate the step definitions when running features in subdirectories of ./features :

rake features FEATURE=features/object/create_object.feature REQUIRE=features

Using cucumber from the command line per your example didn't work for me -- I had to add --require :

cucumber --require features features/object/create_object.feature

More in this blog post .

Answer 2

Better approach is to update your add -r features to cucumber.yml file.

See Cucumber steps not automatically loaded when running features

Answer 3

I ran into the same problem but the require feature did not solve it Instead I got around the problem by using tags

So instead of calling

cucumber features/accounts.feature

I call

cucumber --tags @account features

where "@account" goes before the scenario

@current Scenario: Anonymous user can create an account Given an anonymous user

works fine. All steps.rb files are loaded