-b didn't do a thing for me in this case. The error didn't produce any backtraces at all.
Using the debugger was the only way to go. On 16 February 2011 14:37, Chris Herring <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 ? > > -- > Gregory McIntyre > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
