Upgrading to 7.1.0

The wire protocol

Usage of built-in wire protocol with cucumber-ruby will be deprecated in cucumber 7.1.0, and removed in cucumber 8.0.0.

The wire protocol will still be available by explicitly using the cucumber-wire gem.

Before cucumber 7.1.0

Before cucumber 7.1.0, the wire protocol was automatically installed with cucumber, and automatically activated when it had detected a .wire file.

With cucumber 7.1.0

The wire protocol will work as before, but you will notice a deprecation message.

To prevent the deprecation message to be shown, add the gem cucumber-wire to your Gemfile alongside the cucumber one, and install it:

# Gemfile

# ...

gem 'cucumber'
gem 'cucumber-wire'

# ...

bundle install

And add require 'cucumber/wire' in your support code. If you do not have support code yet, create a new one. For example features/support/wire.rb.

# features/support/wire.rb

require 'cucumber/wire'

The wire protocol will be installed, and no deprecation message will be shown anymore.

AfterConfiguration hook

Usage of AfterConfiguration hook will be deprecated in 7.1.0.

Use the new InstallPlugin hook if you need the configuration parameter.

Use the new BeforeAll hook if you don't need the configuration parameter.

More information about hooks can be found in features/docs/writing_support_code/hooks/README.md.