The way I’ve started using story runner is to write the story and
scenarios, and then implement each step incrementally. The order that
I implement is not necessarily the order its logically written. Lets
say I want to get the story working without the authentication, so a
Given clause and a Then clause might be pending; but I’d still want
the story to run though the rest of the stuff. I tried calling pending
(“TO DO”) in the do end block,but that gave same result. Well, what
if we added a new method, like skip_this_because(“authentication not
implemented yet”) ?? 
fyi, In the meantime I’ve written a little helper
def skip_pending(text=’’)
puts “SKIP PENDING #{text}”
end
so I can do
And “foo foo bar bar” do
skip_pending “Implement foo bar”
end