Converting Gherkin to JSON in Ruby

gistfile1.rb

# This took me an hour or so to figure out as the documentation is a bit
# sparse, but the gherkin gem ships with a json formatter

require 'rubygems'
require 'gherkin'
require 'gherkin/formatter/json_formatter'
require 'gherkin/parser/parser'
require 'json'

#--- 

feature = IO.read('foo.feature')

io = StringIO.new
formatter = Gherkin::Formatter::JSONFormatter.new(io)
parser = Gherkin::Parser::Parser.new(formatter, false, 'root')
parser.parse(feature, __FILE__, 0)
 
puts JSON.parse(io.string)