I like frameworks, but sometimes debugging them is more entertaining. I don't know why I didn't think of this method before, but mischa on github has a great little repo showing how you can do it.

The README

Usage:

Add:

require 'ruby-debug' require 'cucumber_rails_debug/steps'

To features/support/env.rb

Then use:

Then debug # opens the debugger

or

Then what # prints out params, url and html

Check it out here