The Cucumber Book, 2nd Edition

Adding Custom Helper Methods to the World

We’ve implemented the first step of our scenario to set up an account with a sufficient balance that the withdrawal should work. After all that talking about transforms, it’s hard to remember exactly what we need to do next, but we can always rely on cucumber to remind us where we are:

Feature: Cash Withdrawal

  Scenario: Successful withdrawal from an account in credit
    Given I have deposited $100 in my account
    When I request $20
      TODO (Cucumber::Pending)
      ./features/step_definitions/steps.rb:28
      features/cash_withdrawal.feature:4
    Then $20 should be dispensed

1 scenario (1 pending)
3 steps (1 skipped, 1 pending, 1 passed)
0m0.018s

The first step is passing as we’d expect, and the second ...