meta: Rule support across Cucumber implementations

[davidjgoss]

A central issue to track state of support for Gherkin's Rule keyword across official Cucumber implementations.

• Java - Limited support in 5.0.0, full support coming soon (project)
• JavaScript - Coming soon in 7.0.0 (pull request)
• Ruby - Coming soon in 4.0.0
• .NET - Since SpecFlow 3.1
• Go - Not supported yet

[davidjgoss]

This issue can be linked from the docs (see cucumber/docs#440) and closed once all implementations have Rule support in their latest stable version.

I'm not exactly clear on the status/outlook for .NET and Go, maybe someone could update those?

[justindwyer6-archive]

Is there any update on Ruby support for this?

[luke-hill]

@justindwyer6 - At the moment Cucumber4 was just released, primarily this changed a lot of auto-loading algorithm stuff and it also started to use the new formatters. That was always the plan for v4. It's likely this won't hit ruby in the short term, but it could hit at some point during the v4 life-cycle. I've been a bit out of the loop recently, but I will be getting back involved a lot more soon.

[p2635]

Any news on the .NET side?

[luke-hill]

ping @SabotageAndi

[SabotageAndi]

@p2635

It is there since SpecFlow 3.1:

https://specflow.org/blog/specflow-specflowrunner-3-1-are-here/
https://docs.specflow.org/projects/specflow/en/latest/Gherkin/Gherkin-Reference.html#rule

There are still limitations in the VS Extensions with it, but at runtime it is working.

[SabotageAndi]

I adjusted the issue description

[p2635]

Thanks @SabotageAndi , how can I follow the updates with the syntax highlighting? I've subscribed to this issue so I hope that is enough.

[SabotageAndi]

@p2635 No, subscribing to this issue will not be enough. Without @luke-hill ping, I would never notice this issue. The SpecFlow development happens in its own GitHub organization. We don't monitor the cucumber repositories. The best way to notice if there is an update to it is to follow us on Twitter or our Blog.

[p2635]

That's great @SabotageAndi , I'm already subscribed to the blog so it's all good.

[luke-hill]

Given this is implemented in most other languages. And gherkin has for several versions had Rule working stably, I'll close this issue.