Run cucumber through spork

cucumber, ruby-on-rails, spork, testing

Solution

I also encountered this. Not sure why, but I guess this is because I'd updated cucumber-rails to the latest version. After I switched back to older version, the problem's gone

try putting these lines into your Gemfile

gem 'cucumber',  '1.2.5'
gem 'cucumber-rails', '1.3.0', :require => false 

then `bundle install`

I hope this helps

Problem

I have the `Exception encountered: #<SystemExit: exit>` error, when trying run cucumber through spork. features/support/env.rb: ``` require 'rubygems' require 'spork' require 'cucumber/rails' require 'pickle/world' require "capybara/poltergeist" Spork.prefork do Capybara.javascript_driver = :poltergeist end Spork.each_run do ActionController::Base.allow_rescue = false begin DatabaseCleaner[:mongoid].strategy = :truncation rescue NameError raise "You need to add database_cleaner to your Gemfile (in the :test group) if you wish to use it." end DatabaseCleaner[:mongoid].clean Cucumber::Rails::Database.javascript_strategy = :truncation end ``` Run without spork: ``` vagrant@lucid32:/vagrant$ bundle exec cucumber WARNING: No DRb server is running. Running features locally: Rack::File headers parameter replaces cache_control after Rack 1.5. Using the default profile... Feature: Password recovery In order to retrieve lost password As a user of this site I want to reset it Scenario: Reset password # features/users/password_recovery.feature:6 Given I am not logged in # features/step_definitions/login_steps.rb:1 And a user exists # features/step_definitions/pickle_steps.rb:4 1 scenario (1 passed) 2 steps (2 passed) 0m0.504s ``` Run with spork: ``` vagrant@lucid32:/vagrant$ bundle exec cucumber Disabling profiles... Feature: Password recovery In order to retrieve lost password As a user of this site I want to reset it Scenario: Reset password # features/users/password_recovery.feature:6 Given I am not logged in # features/step_definitions/login_steps.rb:1 And a user exists # features/step_definitions/pickle_steps.rb:4 1 scenario (1 passed) 2 steps (2 passed) 0m0.495s Exception encountered: #<SystemExit: exit> backtrace: /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.3.1/lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:54:in `exit' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.3.1/lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:54:in `rescue in execute!' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.3.1/lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:37:in `execute!' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/test_framework/cucumber.rb:24:in `run_tests' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:13:in `block in run' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/forker.rb:21:in `block in initialize' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/forker.rb:18:in `fork' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/forker.rb:18:in `initialize' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:9:in `new' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:9:in `run' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/server.rb:48:in `run' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1548:in `perform_without_block' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1508:in `perform' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1586:in `block (2 levels) in main_loop' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1582:in `loop' /usr/local/rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1582:in `block in main_loop' ``` How to solve it?

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