Failed to run custom step with the selenium cucumber ruby - ruby

Question

I am writing a test for desktop web automation using the
selenium cucumber ruby.
My test includes both predefined and custom steps.
However, my test fails to run due to an error caused by a custom step.
The feature file that I run:
Feature: Login a customer
Scenario: Go in a call
Given I navigate to <url>
...
When I submit the form with id "custSearchSimple"
....
And I wait for 5 sec
Then element having id "accNumber" should be present
The When I submit the form with id "custSearchSimple" is a custom step.
This step is defined in the custom_step.rb. I have used the submit command of the Selenium Cucumber Ruby API. The custom_step.rb is the following file:
require 'selenium-cucumber'
# Do Not Remove This File
# Add your custom steps here
# $driver is instance of webdriver use this instance to write your custom code
#firefox browser instantiation
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.navigate.to "https://localhost/telebet"
When(/^I submit the form with id "(.*?)"$/) do |arg1|
element= driver.submit(:id,"#{arg1}")
end
When I run the feature file by running cucumber features/name_of_the_file.feature, I get the NoMethodError error:
When I submit the form with id "custSearchSimple" # features/step_definitions/custom_steps.rb:12
private method `submit' called for #<Selenium::WebDriver::Driver:0x94c4bde4bdff4d6 browser=:firefox> (NoMethodError)
I could not find any example using the Selenium Cucumber Ruby API for writing custom steps. I suspect that I might have omitted some commands for the selenium web driver ruby. Something is missing that I could not find. Does anyone know why I get this error?

Answer 1

Maybe I am confused here but:
When(/^I submit the form with id "(.*?)"$/) do |arg1|
submit_form arg1
end
def submit_form(form_id)
submit("id", form_id)
end
Would do what you want? submit_form isn't a cucumber step, it's a ruby method - probably why you're getting Cucumber::UndefinedDynamicStep.