I've found the root cause of my problem.

Thanks Gregory for the tip. I went with that approach to diagnose the
problem. I stuck a breakpoint in a Before do end statement and then did the
following:

   - cat StandardError (to breakpoint when a cucumber error was thrown)
   - cont

Turns out, that in env.rb I was requiring 'cucumber/rails/active_record'
which indirectly has a runtime dependency on DatabaseCleaner which I had not
included as a dependency in my Gemfile.

The failure occurred BEFORE the feature ran, hence the failure at the start
and end, and all the steps were skipped.

I guess the annoying thing was that the error wasn't reported properly (no
backtrace), and the dependency is a runtime dependency not a load-time
dependency, causing the error to surface as the feature ran, rather than
when cucumber loaded.


Cheers,
Jason


On 16 February 2011 06:44, Gregory McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:

> Also, tried with --format pretty and maybe --expand ?
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