I have used the tool in question and recently abandoned it for the same setup described in the article, I'm guessing for the same reasons he did.

Cucumber is only annoying if you don't need to use it. A lot of people who didn't really need it were using it in the rails world, and recently they have got sick of it.

If you have an actual business need for executable documentation like it provides, then it is still excellent and not a headache.