Reusing Cucumber Steps

Reusing Steps or calling Steps within steps.

Suppose you have:

Given a author exists with name: "author1"
And a post: "My post" exists with author: the author, title: "my title"

It can be compressed into one step with the step like

Given a post: "My post" exists by author: "author1", title: "my_title"

And added step definition

Given /^a post: "([^"]*)" exists by author: "([^"]*)", title: "([^"]*)"$/ do |post, author, title|
    Given "a author exists with name: \"#{author}\""
    And "a post: \"#{post}\" exists with author: the author, title: \"#{title}\""
end

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