Using Airborne with rails-cucumber

[ptolemybarnes]

When using Cucumber in the context of rails-cucumber, you can usually extend the Cucumber 'World' simply by passing the module. e.g.,
World(Capybara::DSL)
It seems like this doesn't work with Airborne though. See my SO post here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29257549/how-to-extend-world-in-the-context-of-cucumber-rails
And the workaround below. I don't know enough about the inner workings of Cucumber to say why this might be the case.