Dr Nic

hash bang cucumber

I don’t know if this is a good idea or not, but often I just wish I could copy and paste a cucumber feature file into the command line and have it just run the frigging scenarios without having to prefix it with “cucumber”.

Perhaps I’m a bit delirious but I think it would be fun to paste features/112_users_crud.feature into the console and it would run the scenarios:

$ features/users_crud.feature

instead of having to always do the extra key strokes:

$ cucumber features/users_crud.feature

Solution?

Two steps:

1. At the very top of each feature file add: #!/usr/bin/env cucumber
2. Run chmod +x features/*.feature

Shazam!

Hash bang me up!

To apply this to all your feature files, jump into script/console or irb and run the following code within your project:

Dir["**/*.feature"].each do |feature|
  contents = File.read(feature)
  File.open(feature, "w") do |f|
    f << "#!/usr/bin/env cucumber\n\n"
    f << contents
  end
  `chmod +x "#{feature}"`
end

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