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Asked: 2026-06-05T03:51:37+00:00

I’m getting a nasty syntax error when I try to run bundle exec cucumber

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I’m getting a nasty syntax error when I try to run bundle exec cucumber or rake cucumber:

~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0@rails31/gems/cucumber-1.1.4/lib/cucumber/js_support/js_dsl.js:3: syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting keyword_then or ';' or '\n'

As well as several other syntax errors from the same file. When I run the features via bundle exec guard, everything works fine.

I am using:

  • Cucumber 1.1.4
  • Rails 3.2
  • Ruby 1.9.3
  • Guard 1.0.0, guard-cucumber 0.7.5
  • Spork 1.0.0rc2, guard-spork 0.5.2

This seems like some sort of compatibility problem but it’s not apparent to me what the issue is. Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This turned out to be an issue with the tags syntax in my cucumber.yml file.

    Before

    std_opts = "--format #{ENV['CUCUMBER_FORMAT'] || 'pretty'} --strict --tags ~@wip ~@javascript"

    Fixed

    std_opts = "--format #{ENV['CUCUMBER_FORMAT'] || 'pretty'} --strict --tags ~@wip --tags ~@javascript"

    I was not familiar with the --tags syntax. Reference

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