Travis CI fails to parse my gherkin `.feature` files

Question

I'm using RSpec and Turnip (an alternative to Cucumber that also uses Gherkin syntax) to test my Rails application.

My specs and acceptance tests run 100% green on my local machine.

josh@macbuech:~/Documents/Work/MuheimWebdesign/transition (master *)$ rake
[deprecated] I18n.enforce_available_locales will default to true in the future. If you really want to skip validation of your locale you can set I18n.enforce_available_locales = false to avoid this message.
/Users/josh/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p353/bin/ruby -S rspec ./spec/acceptance/users/confirm_registration.feature ./spec/acceptance/users/sign_in.feature ./spec/acceptance/users/sign_out.feature ./spec/acceptance/users/sign_up.feature ./spec/acceptance/users/user_edit.feature ./spec/acceptance/users/user_show.feature ./spec/cells/mini_hub_cell_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/dashboards_controller_spec.rb ./spec/models/user_spec.rb ./spec/routing/users_routing_spec.rb
[deprecated] I18n.enforce_available_locales will default to true in the future. If you really want to skip validation of your locale you can set I18n.enforce_available_locales = false to avoid this message.
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When I let Travis CI run them, though, the Turnip acceptance tests fail:

https://travis-ci.org/jmuheim/transition/builds/17069121

/home/travis/build/jmuheim/transition/spec/acceptance/users/confirm_registration.feature:1: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting end-of-input (SyntaxError)
Feature: Confirm registration
        ^
    from /home/travis/build/jmuheim/transition/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:896:in `block in load_spec_files'
    from /home/travis/build/jmuheim/transition/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:896:in `each'
    from /home/travis/build/jmuheim/transition/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:896:in `load_spec_files'
    from /home/travis/build/jmuheim/transition/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:22:in `run'
    from /home/travis/build/jmuheim/transition/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:80:in `run'
    from /home/travis/build/jmuheim/transition/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in `block in autorun'

I have disabled them temporarily, and now the build passes:

https://travis-ci.org/jmuheim/transition/builds/17074697

Do you have any idea why the .feature files cause problems? They somehow seem to be parsed wrong, or they are not recognized as Gherkin.

Thanks for help.

Joshua Muheim Joshua Muheim · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-19T10:45:57

I fixed it: the problem was that I didn't have my .rspec file checked into Git (which contains the essential -r turnip/rspec line).

Travis CI fails to parse my gherkin `.feature` files

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