cucumber-js doesn't find step definitions

Hi, I’m a newbie who’s been trying for hours to get cucumber-js to find my step definitions. I’ve come up with this simple example.

In features/foo.feature:

Feature: Foo
  Scenario: Bar
    Given FooBar

In features/step_definitions/step_defs.js:

var {defineSupportCode} = require('cucumber');

defineSupportCode(function({Given}) {
    Given('FooBar', function () {
      return 'pending';
    });    
});

I get this result:

Feature: Foo

  Scenario: Bar
  ? Given FooBar

Warnings:

1) Scenario: Bar - features\foo.feature:2
   Step: Given FooBar - features\foo.feature:3
   Message:
     Undefined. Implement with the following snippet:

       Given('FooBar', function (callback) {
         // Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions
         callback(null, 'pending');
       });

1 scenario (1 undefined)
1 step (1 undefined)
0m00.000s

[charlierudolph]

Alright. I believe I figured this out.

When using a global install of cucumber to run the feature tests, you are still defining support code by requiring the local install of cucumber. The fact that these are two different instances results in no step definitions being loaded.

Is there any reason you can’t use the local install for running the command? I do this on mac by adding “./node_modules/.bin” to my path.

I don’t like the idea of trying to making this work by having the global install try to require the local install in order to get the step definitions. I also dislike the global install since it makes you have to specify things like compile modules by their absolute path.

If this is possible on windows, I’d prefer to just update the documentation to mention that this cannot be used as a global install.

[GeeChao]

@vvedachalam

It works for me.

The only thing I did was move step_definitions to under the features directory

also i did a npm install cucumber@1.3.3 --save-dev

then ran node_modules/cucumber/bin/cucumber.js features/