Parallel cucumber: How to pass in cucumber arguments
Here is an example with the --tags option. You need to wrap them inside --cucumber-options option of parallel_cucumber.
DISPLAY=:17 bundle exec parallel_cucumber --cucumber-options '--tags @solo' features
See more details in the docs Show archive.org snapshot .
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