This error is raised because your old database does not have a configured environment yet, which Rails 5 enforces.

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If this error occurs while migrating your parallel test databases, make sure to update the parallel_tests gem first: current versions fix this. If you're still using Cucumber < v3, the latest version of parallel_tests will be 2.18.0.