howto fix spreewald issue „database configuration does not specify adapter (ActiveRecord::AdapterNotSpecified)“
This error occurs when you already have a database.yml which defines the database for the cucumber environment instead of test. (Spreewald database.sample.yml has changed)
Fix
Change cucumber to test in your databse.yml
test: # <---
adapter: mysql2
database: spreewald_test
encoding: utf8
host: localhost
username: root
password: password
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