Communication within a team always works better when people can use their spoken language. Cucumber supports around 40 spoken languages. and the number is steadily growing. This is Norwegian:

# language: no
Egenskap: Summering
  For å ungå at firmaet går konkurs
  Må regnskapsførerere bruke en regnemaskin for å legge sammen

  Scenario: to tall
    Gitt at jeg har tastet inn 5
    Og at jeg har tastet inn 7
    Når jeg summerer
    Så skal resultatet være 12

  Scenario: tre tall
    Gitt at jeg har tastet inn 5
    Og at jeg har tastet inn 7
    Og at jeg har tastet inn 1
    Når jeg summerer
    Så skal resultatet være 13

A # language: header on the first line of a feature file tells Cucumber what spoken language to use – for example # language: fr for French. If you omit this header, Cucumber will default to English (en).

Listing the available languages

cucumber --language help

From version 0.5.0 you must use:

cucumber --i18n help

Listing the keywords of a particular language

For example Russian:

cucumber --language ru help

From version 0.5.0 you must use:

cucumber --i18n ru

Adding a new language

(or completing an existing one). It’s easy!

1. Make a fork of Cucumber and pull it down
2. Add your language’s keywords to languages.yml
3. Commit and push your changes – then send a pull request at GitHub.

Alternatively – if you don’t know Git and just grabbed the Gem:

1. Edit the languages.yml in your gem.
2. Get in touch and attach the updated languages.yml to a new Lighthouse ticket.

That’s it! You have a new language that you can specify in a # language: xx header in your feature files.

Adding examples for a new language

Just copy the examples/i18n/en example to a new directory with the same name as the language you added. Then translate everything in there. When you’re done you should be able to run rake i18n from the examples/i18n directory. If you want this code back into the official source you have to do those changes in your own cloned Git repo.