undefined local variable or method `message' (NameError)

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I am trying to learn Rspec-Cucumber tutorial by referring to "The Pragmatic Programmers - The Rspec Book". I am on the 4th chapter and seems to be stuck with an error and not able to move forward.I have followed exactly as per the tutorial but it is showing the below error `( in line : output.messages.should include(message))`when I try to run cucumber feature in my console.

**undefined local variable or method `message' for #<Object:0x9c0c05c> (NameError)**

My codebreaker_steps.rb file is as follows.

    Then /^I should see "([^"]*)"$/ do |arg1|     output.messages.should include(message)     end

    class Output       def messages       @messages ||=       end

      def puts(message)       messages << message       end     end

      def output       @output ||= Output.new       end

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I’m not an expert, but you’re passing |arg1| as block argument, but you’re calling the messages method to the object variable. Maybe it should be:

arg1.messages.should include(message)

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The book shows:

  “Then /^I should see "([^"]*)"$/ do |message|      output.messages.should include(message)    end”

Excerpt From: David Chelimsky. “The RSpec Book (for Tamara Temple).” iBooks.

you have |arg1| after the do, not |message|