Cucumber not finding step definitions

Question

My Cucumber just won't find the step definitions. The file structure (Only the specs folder inside the Rails root) looks like this:

-> specs
   -> features
      -> main_structure.feature
      -> step_definitions
         -> main_structure_steps.rb

This is the main_structure.feature:

Feature: Main structure
  Scenario: Viewing the Structure page
    When I am on the structure page

And this the main_structure_steps.rb:

When(/^I am on the structure page$/) do
  visit '/'
end

Now I run the cucumber command like this:

→ cucumber spec/features -r features 

I get this output:

Using the default profile...
Feature: Main structure

  Scenario: Viewing the Structure page # spec/features/main_structure.feature:2
    When I am on the structure page    # spec/features/main_structure.feature:3
      Undefined step: "I am on the structure page" (Cucumber::Undefined)
      spec/features/main_structure.feature:3:in `When I am on the structure page'

1 scenario (1 undefined)
1 step (1 undefined)
0m0.229s

You can implement step definitions for undefined steps with these snippets:

When(/^I am on the structure page$/) do
  pending # express the regexp above with the code you wish you had
end

/Users/rudolf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/gems/minitest-4.7.5/lib/minitest/unit.rb:1037:in `block in process_args': invalid option: -r (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
    from /Users/rudolf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/gems/minitest-4.7.5/lib/minitest/unit.rb:1016:in `new'
    from /Users/rudolf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/gems/minitest-4.7.5/lib/minitest/unit.rb:1016:in `process_args'
    from /Users/rudolf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/gems/minitest-4.7.5/lib/minitest/unit.rb:1066:in `_run'
    from /Users/rudolf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/gems/minitest-4.7.5/lib/minitest/unit.rb:1059:in `run'
    from /Users/rudolf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/gems/minitest-4.7.5/lib/minitest/unit.rb:795:in `block in autorun'

There is also an error message at the bottom, that doesn't appear when I run the test in RubyMine. But in both cases, the step definitions are not found. This is the Rubymine output:

Testing started at 21:29 ...


You can implement step definitions for undefined steps with these snippets:

When(/^I am on the structure page$/) do
  pending # express the regexp above with the code you wish you had
end
1 scenario (1 undefined)
1 step (1 undefined)
0m0.001s

Process finished with exit code 0

Tell me if you need any additional infos.

Answer 1

Try

cucumber spec/features/main_structure.feature -r spec/features