I'm hardly a story-runner expert, so I may be making a dumb mistake here... I'm trying to get one scenario to run another as part of its Given clause. It looks like this:

        Scenario: Admin user merges two venues
                GivenScenario Admin user views two venues
                When I go to "/admin/venues"
                Then I should see "Venue1"

Obviously the When / Then bits will get more complicated once I get this working.

In another .feature file, I have the following scenario (which passes)

        Scenario: Admin user views two venues
                Given the default city exists
                ...

The scenario "Admin user merges two venues" fails with this ugly backtrace:

/Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/ lib/cucumber/tree/scenario.rb:45:in `given_scenario_steps': You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! (NoMethodError) The error occurred while evaluating nil.steps from /Users/matt/ Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/plugins/cucumber/lib/ cucumber/tree/given_scenario.rb:9:in `steps' from /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/ plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/scenario.rb:41:in `steps' from /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/ plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/scenario.rb:41:in `map' from /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/ plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/scenario.rb:41:in `steps' from /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/ plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/scenario.rb:9:in `accept' from /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/ plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/executor.rb:62:in `visit_scenario' from /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/ plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/executor.rb:53:in `visit_regular_scenario' from /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/ plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/tree/feature.rb:47:in `accept'
         ... 6 levels...
from /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/ plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/executor.rb:36:in `visit_features' from /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/ plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/cli.rb:84:in `execute!' from /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/ plugins/cucumber/lib/cucumber/cli.rb:11:in `execute' from /Users/matt/Documents/projects/songkick/skweb/vendor/ plugins/cucumber/bin/cucumber:3
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [/usr/local/bin/ruby -I "/Users/matt/ Docume...]


What am I doing wrong?


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Matt
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