Cucumber may complain about cucumber.yml being invalid when it is valid
Running Cucumber tests while your cucumber.yml is 100% valid may still produce the following error.
cucumber.yml was found, but could not be parsed. Please refer to cucumber's documentation on correct profile usage.
This may in fact be due to your rerun file (e.g. tmp/rerun.txt) being invalid. Delete it and try again.
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