Ruby: A short summary of available hooks in Cucumber

Here is a short summary of Cucumber hooks in Ruby taken from https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby Show archive.org snapshot . Note that the BeforeStep is currently not existing in the Ruby implementation of Cucumber.

Before hooks run before the first step of each scenario.

CopyBefore do |scenario|
  ...
end

After hooks run after the last step of each scenario, even when the step result is failed, undefined, pending or skipped.

CopyAfter do |scenario|
  ...
end

CopyAround do |scenario, block|
  ...
  block.call
  ...
end

CopyAfterStep do |scenario|
  ...
end

You can restrict the hooks to one or more tags:

CopyBefore("@slow") do |scenario|
  ...
end

A global hook will run once before any scenario is run.

Copy# env.rb
...

BeforeAll hooks will run before any scenario is executed.

CopyBeforeAll do
  ...
end

You can include code to Cucumber in the World module without polluting the application namespace (example from https://jam.cucumber.io/):

features/support/helpers.rb

Copymodule Helpers
  def helper_method
    42
  end
end

World(Helpers)

features/step_definitions/step.rb

CopyThen /^the helper method is called$/ do
  expect(helper_method).to eql(42)
end