You can pass -b I believe to Cucumber and it will throw a backtrace on failure.
On Wednesday, 16 February 2011 at 9:43 AM, Jason Nah wrote: 
> 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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