[Cucumber] Bug with background

Seem to be getting a problem when running a feature with background.
Running
the whole file works fine however running an individual feature fails.
The
background steps are

Background:
Given an admin user Philip exists
When I login as Philip
Then I should be logged in as Philip

running the following scenario on its own causes an error

Scenario: Admin should be able to run a feed #
features/admin/manage_feeds.feature:23
Given an admin user Philip exists #
features/step_definitions/accounts/creation.steps.rb:66
Validation failed: Login has already been taken, Email has already
been taken (ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid)

/Users/andy/Sites/mvor/vendor/plugins/object_daddy/lib/object_daddy.rb:210:in
`generate!’

/Users/andy/Sites/mvor/vendor/plugins/object_daddy/lib/object_daddy.rb:32:in
`spawn’

/Users/andy/Sites/mvor/vendor/plugins/object_daddy/lib/object_daddy.rb:209:in
/^I create a user with login (\w*)$/' features/admin/manage_feeds.feature:7:inGiven an admin user
Philip
exists’
Given there is 1 valid feed #
features/step_definitions/admin/admin_supplier_feed.steps.rb:8

Now this only happens if there is at least one scenario in the file
before
the tested scenario, so I’m speculating that when you run a feature
using
'cucumber path/to/feature/feature:xx -r path/to/steps, then background
is
not doing is

  1. Running for preceding scenarios
  2. Not clearing the database for a scenario run by line number

Wondering if anyone else can replicate this, or has any ideas about it
before I put this in lighthouse.

Cheers

Andrew

2009/3/30 Andrew P. [email protected]

running the following scenario on its own causes an error

Now this only happens if there is at least one scenario in the file before
the tested scenario, so I’m speculating that when you run a feature using
'cucumber path/to/feature/feature:xx -r path/to/steps, then background is
not doing is

  1. Running for preceding scenarios
  2. Not clearing the database for a scenario run by line number

Wondering if anyone else can replicate this, or has any ideas about it
before I put this in lighthouse.

Sounds like a bug. It would be wonderful if you could also provide some
files for us to put under examples/tickets/features to reproduce it. See
examples/tickets/features/246.feature for an example.

Cheers,
Aslak

Submitted bug :
https://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16211-cucumber/tickets/270-background-transactions-and-xx

Put some features and output in a gist that show this bug, hope its
sufficient.

All best

Andrew

2009/3/30 aslak hellesoy [email protected]