cucumber rails in action book

If you are using the latest version of cucumber it no longer supports web steps such as "I follow" "I see" as they do not help to describe the behavior of the system. It is better to use the latest version and refactor your cucumber steps.

Given a project exists in the system
When I view the project
Then the correct data should be displayed

That allows you to move the web step stuff (I follow, I should see etc) into the the scenario steps themselves and makes your scenarios much more expressive without the needless detail.

If that doesn't sound to appealing or you want to follow the book examples I suggest you use an older version of cucumber, 1.0.6 should be low enough, but check what version they use in the book.

That said, I strongly recommend the first option so you learn to use Cucumber well.