ensure the expected port is actually used by cucumber

features/support/env.rb

@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ require 'capybara/session'
 #require 'cucumber/rails/capybara_javascript_emulation' # Lets you click links with onclick javascript handlers without using @culerity or @javascript
 require 'cucumber/api_steps'
 
+# Ensure we know the appservers port
+Capybara.server_port = 9887
+
+
 # Capybara defaults to XPath selectors rather than Webrat's default of CSS3. In
 # order to ease the transition to Capybara we set the default here. If you'd
 # prefer to use XPath just remove this line and adjust any selectors in your