Running single cucumber feature doesn't load step definitions

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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!

score 29 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 11 '10 at 20:41

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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

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answered Nov 11 '10 at 20:41

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--require set me straight. Thanks! – tassock Nov 12 '10 at 00:09
Why does it not check for the existence of the "features" directory and do this automatically, like rspec does for the "spec" directory? – Asfand Qazi Jan 21 '15 at 15:04

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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

See Cucumber steps not automatically loaded when running features

edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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answered Feb 03 '12 at 19:33

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 14 '11 at 20:18

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

Running single cucumber feature doesn't load step definitions

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