An easier way to use a different langauge

[hediyi]

Say I need to use Japanese as the primary language for my feature files. Do I need to actually put

# language: ja

at top of each file? That's not really smart to do to be honest.

Can't find a cli option that specifies a spoken language when running tests, and the reference doesn't say anything about this.

[aslakhellesoy]

Hi @esdoppio

There isn't currently a way to specify a language globally, but I really like your idea. It sounds like the lack of this feature really bothers you.

Don't worry - Cucumber is open source, so you can fix this yourself. Just fork the repo, add support for a new --language LANGUAGE option (with tests) and send us a pull request. We'll do our best to help you if you're stuck, and if your contribution is good we might add this in the next release!

Thanks!

[hediyi]

Thanks for the reply.

If we're really going this direction, I think the --language option should affects only the feature files that doesn't explicitly specify a spoken language, allowing a project to have tests written in different languages, which is rare, but it doesn't affect users who don't need that complexity.

Do you think this is over-designed? And what do you think of the idea of a configuration file (for cucumber)? @aslakhellesoy

[aslakhellesoy]

I agree that a # language header in a file should override whatever was specified with --language.

Cucumber already has a configuration file - cucumber.yml.

Luckily Gherkin already supports specifying a default language - it's just a matter of hooking into it. See cucumber/gherkin#78

[mattwynne]

@esdoppio which flavour of Cucumber are you using?

[hediyi]

@mattwynne It's cucumber-ruby.

[mattwynne]

OK, in that case let's start with an issue over there: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby/issues

Can you raise one, and do your best to describe your acceptance criteria? The very best thing would be if you could create a PR with a new failing feature in https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby/tree/master/features/docs/cli

[aslakhellesoy]

I'm closing this issue since it's in the wrong repo.

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