When you accept a table in your Cucumber step definition, that table object will have the cryptic type Cucumber::Ast::Table Show archive.org snapshot . Don't immediately call table.raw to convert it into an array of arrays! Cucumber::Ast::Table has a lot of useful methods for tasks such as:

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table.raw
: Turn the table into an array of arrays

table.hashes
: Convert the table to an array of hashes, where the keys are the table headers from the first row

table.headers
: Return only the first row

table.rows
: Return all but the first row as an array of arrays – you might prefer table.raw or table.rows_hash

table.rows_hash
: Turn a two-columned table into a hash, where the first column is the keys and the second the values

table.transpose
: Transpose the table (switch rows <-> columns)

Furthermore…

• Mapping natural language table headers to internal identifiers such as attribute names
• Comparing a table with another table, with pretty diff and all.

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