Question

I use integrated cucumber *.feature file recognition in IntelliJ Idea 10. I tried to use the cucumber plugin but that zombie stuff eats memory like crazy so I abandoned this idea.

The problem is that i have global step_definitions directory where i place all my steps files.

So my directory tree seems like

• features
• —— module 1
• ———— function 1
• ———— function 2
• ———— function 3
• ———— function N
• —— module 2
• ———— function 1
• ———— function 2
• ———— function 3
• ———— function N
• —— step_defenitions
• ———— module1_steps.rb
• ———— module2_steps.rb
• ———— module3_steps.rb
• ———— moduleN_steps.rb
• —— support
• ———— env.rb
• ———— hooks.rb
• lib

I made that for easy coding in one place.

When i run my test, all steps are visible for cucumber. It’s running, doing stuff i wrote.

But when I writing a code in *.feature file, Idea 10 cannot see defined global step definitions and show warnings after Given, When, Then, And etc. words.

Please help me how to tell Idea 10 that i dont need to include step_definitions folder inside every test folder (features/moduleN/functionN/step_definitions) and use that folder (features/step_definitions) instead.

I was trying to modify the project settings and couldn’t find any suitable option.

Answer 1

The problem was in the name of step_defenitions, because it should be step_definitions.

Caution. Don’t do this at home. And of course, don’t try this at work 🙂