title: Cucumber is very slow when running tests [Tested on two different Fedora machines]
body: <p>I am new to BDD. Every time I try using cucumber, I find it pretty slow. I have tried with Rails 3.0.9 &amp; 3.1 on two different machines. One of machines is an old IBM thinkpad laptop with 2 GB ram; and the other one is a PC with 4 GB RAM [I can get exact specifications if required]. Both run Fedora 14.</p>
  
  <p>Even with a new application with no scnerios Cucumber take minutes. Here is how it goes:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ cucumber 
  Using the default profile...
  --- about 2 minutes delay---- and then it says:
  0 scenarios
  0 steps
  0m0.000s
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In contrast, Rspec is instant:</p>
  
  <pre><code>rspec
  No examples found.
  
  Finished in 0.00005 seconds
  0 examples, 0 failures
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>While cucumber says it took 0m0.000s ; it has taken about 2 minutes in reality. And, RSpec was instant and shows the time correctly as well: 0.00005 seconds.</p>
  
  <p>Is this normal. Do I need some additional Gems Or settings to make the process faster.</p>
  
  <p>Update: Here is more data:</p>
  
  <p>First with cucumber:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$time cucumber
  Using the default profile...
  0 scenarios
  0 steps
  0m0.000s
  
  real    0m53.489s
  user    0m37.051s
  sys 0m1.973s
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then with rspec</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ time rspec spec/
  No examples found.
  
  
  Finished in 0.00005 seconds
  0 examples, 0 failures
  
  real    0m1.925s
  user    0m1.032s
  sys 0m0.155s
  </code></pre>