Better output for Cucumber

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We built cucumber_spinner Show archive.org snapshot to have a progress bar for Cucumber features, which also outputs failing scenarios as soon as they fail.

Installation

gem install cucumber_spinner

Usage

cucumber --format CucumberSpinner::ProgressBarFormatter

If you use CucumberSpinner::CuriousProgressBarFormatter and a feature fails, the according page will show up in your browser.

Note that if you run your Cucumber tests using the cuc script from our geordi Show archive.org snapshot gem, it will automatically detect cucumber_spinner and use the command line options above if cucumber_spinner is present.

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Henning Koch
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