# Quick Tip: Cucumber Works-in-Progress

> How to use the Cucumber tagging feature to tag scenarios.

- Author: Curtis Miller
- Published: 2009-09-30
- Categories: rails, testing, how-to
- Canonical URL: https://millarian.com/posts/quick-tip-cucumber-works-in-progress/

After upgrading to the latest gems, including cucumber and webrat, I noticed a deprecation message when trying to run **rake features**. There are new rake tasks now for running cucumber features:

[Code sample on GitHub Gist](https://gist.github.com/194601)

So now, you can indicate which scenarios should pass and which are still be worked on, then run them separately if you like. Simply add some meta-data to your scenarios like this:

[Code sample on GitHub Gist](https://gist.github.com/194602)

This will tag the scenario as a test that should work. If you have a work-in-progress, simply tag with **@wip**.

Read about some other [ridiculously awesome cucumber and webrat features](http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/189412598/five-ridiculously-awesome-cucumber-and-webrat) on the thoughtbot blog.