In cucumber.js, how do you access a debugger while in a step definition?

[c22...@gmail.com]

Here's the only step definition

````

my_only_feature_wrapper = ->

  @World = require('../support/world.coffee').World

  @Given "I am on the home page", (cb) ->

    @visit "http://localhost:4444/", cb

  @Then "I should see the text 'Hello World'", (title, cb) ->

    debugger

    # pageTitle = @browser.text 'title'

    # if title == pageTitle then cb()

    # else cb.fail  new Error("Expected to be on page with title " + title)

module.exports = my_only_feature_wrapper

````

Here's what happens when I attempt to evaluate the test:

````

$ cucumber.js my_only_feature.feature

.%

$

````

The supporting file is straight from the README:

````

zombie = require "zombie"

World = World = (callback) ->

  @browser = new zombie() # this.browser will be available in step definitions

  @visit = (url, callback) ->

    @browser.visit url, callback

  # tell Cucumber we're finished and to use 'this' as the world instance

  callback()

exports.World = World

````

Has anyone successfully accessed a debugger while using Cucumber.js?

[Julien Biezemans]

You need to tell Node to activate the VM debugger. To do so you'll have to explicitly invoke Node. I got it working, breakpoints and REPL available in my stepdefs with the following:

    $ node debug node_modules/.bin/cucumber.js -f pretty features/my.feature

HTH,

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[Totty s]

That didn't worked for me. here is my solution: node --debug-brk node_modules/cucumber/bin/cucumber.js  "./tests/server" --format pretty

[Julien Biezemans]

On Tue Jan 20 2015 at 11:43:57 AM Totty s <webdesi...@gmail.com> wrote:

That didn't worked for me. here is my solution: node --debug-brk node_modules/cucumber/bin/cucumber.js  "./tests/server" --format pretty

That's because you didn't set any breakpoint in your code before running the command. --debug-brk will pause the script on it's very first line.

 

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