UPGRADING.md

Upgrading from 6.0.1 to 6.1.0

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 explicitely 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:

# Gemfile

# ...

gem "cucumber"
gem "cucumber-wire"

# ...

Then install it:

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.

With cucumber 8.0.0

The usage of the built-in wire protocol will be removed. You will have to install cucumber-wire and add require 'cucumber/wire' in your support code in order to continue using it, as explained above.