Configure CI::Reporter::Cucumber formatter as non STDOUT formats

[sleungcy]

Is there a way to configure this formatter as a non-STDOUT formatter? I want to use this formatter to output the xml reports, as well as having the test results piped onto the console as well.

However, it looks to me cucumber only accepts at most 1 formatter that uses STDOUT, as seen in the cucumber code below.

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby/blob/646cfe7e5534b32aed6ff3046a889ad069955940/lib/cucumber/cli/options.rb#L388

[sleungcy]

Actually, I don't think it uses stdout at all? If that's the case, it's output should be set.
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[shepmaster]

@sleungcy If I'm understanding you correctly:

The default Rake invocation of CI::Reporter::Cucumber does not pass an -o option in conjunction with the formatter when the cucumber binary is run.

This means that Cucumber thinks that CI::Reporter will be reporting to stdout. Since only one thing is allowed to write to stdout, this disables the built-in console formatter.

You'd like to be able to use both CI::Reporter and the console formatter concurrently.

I don't think that the proposed solution of -o /dev/null is appropriate as it is Linux-specific. It's also a bit misleading, as the output isn't going to /dev/null. What would be better is if we actually used the -o setting appropriately, perhaps as the base directory of all the files.

This will require a change to ReportManager as well as CI::Reporter::Cucumber. Plus some investigation to understand exactly what the io parameter is.