Question

When I run something in the Before hook it seems to happen after the first Given step.

Scenario: Stack Overflow Example
  Given some condition
  When something happens 
  Then something should be

Before do
  puts 'hello'
end

Outputs:

Scenario: Stack Overflow Example
  Given some condition
    Hello
    ....

This happens for each step.

Is this a misunderstanding on my part or a cucumber feature? How do I run something before the given step?

Many thanks in advance.

R

Answer 1

I don’t know the technical reason but cucumber wont print using a plain ‘puts’ statement until after the scenario is finished.

Try STDOUT.puts “hello” and you will see that the Before hook runs first.