Cucumber reuse example - cucumber

Question

I would like to use the Examples in the code below in the "When I sign up with the following information" line without having to specify every single parameter and without having to repeat the table in the examples.
Is this possible?
Scenario Outline: signing up a user that already exists
Given I am registered as "<username>" with password "<password>"
When I sign up with the following information
Then I should be on the sign up page
And I should see "user already registered"
Examples:
| email | username | name | password | password_confirmation | city | mobile_numbers |
| foo#bar.com | existent | some user | temp123 | temp123 | foobar | 70 707070 |

Answer 1

When you generate the cucumber project folder, the structure will contain a ruby file called env.rb within the support directory inside the features folder (along with the step_definitions folder). Here you can define your methods, variables, etc. that will serve as a common source for all your other tests inside the same project.
Since Cucumber is a Ruby gem, the data is defined in Ruby's format. You can define them as methods or variables. I prefer to define them as methods (in ruby, methods return their last line). So your methods will look like
def email
"foo#bar.com" # returns this when email is called
end
def username
"existent"
end
and so on...
You can optimize it to suit your needs. You will call them in your ste_definition files just like any normal ruby function would be called.