Extract #steps and #step into a separate plugin gem

[mattwynne]

Born of #273. This would mean that Cucumber, out of the box, does not support this feature which many of us consider to be an anti-pattern. You'd have to opt-in to use it.

This might interest you @tooky, since you're all over those nested steps at the moment. :) How possible do you think it would be?

[adbatista]

I would like to try this. It will be a good way to learn more about Cucumber's source code.
But I think i'll need some help in beginning to undestand how this part works

[mattwynne]

Thanks @adbatista. TBH I don't know how we'd do this just yet, and I don't want to think about it while we still have @wip tests failing on the master branch. Could you help us with those first?

[adbatista]

@mattwynne, all tests are green, are these tests breaking in some specific version or interpreter?

[mattwynne]

If you check out the master branch and run cucumber -p @wip you'll see there are still about 50 scenarios failing due to regressions. We need to fix all those before we can release even an alpha version of 2.0.

[nodo]

I would be happy to give this issue a go in order to progress the milestone. What do you think @mattwynne ? Is there anything more pressing?

[mattwynne]

@nodo I haven't updated the 3.0.0 milestone in a while and I think this issue was just hanging around there. It would be nice to do it sometime, but it's not high priority I don't think.

I'm playing around with the new "Projects" feature in GitHub, so look there to help you figure out priorities, or ping me on gitter. Thanks for all your efforts so far, it's great to have you on the team!

[nodo]

Thanks @mattwynne , will keep an eye on projects or ping you!

[ericgriffis]

@mattwynne Has work been done already to this end? I would love to help make this happen, since we have an app that needs to access the steps of failing scenarios, but I don't know where to start

[mattwynne]

Hi @ericgriffis can you tell me more about your use-case?

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[mattwynne]

Ref: cucumber-attic/gherkin2#178