How do I fix this websocket connection error with Velocity?

I've tried out cucumber as well as jasmine with brand new projects, but all my tests are getting this failure. When I run:

$ meteor --test

I get:

stream error Network error: ws://localhost:3000/websocket: connect ECONNREFUSED

This failure comes from a fresh application using the xolvio:cucumber package.

When I check out the mirror logs, it ends with:

[chimp] Finished running async processes with errors
stream error Network error: ws://localhost:3000/websocket: connect ECONNREFUSED
stream error Network error: ws://localhost:3000/websocket: connect ECONNREFUSED
Parent process ( 20797 ) is dead! Exiting cucumber

So, is this some kind of system error just for me? I have the latest Meteor: 1.1.0.2

I realize also this error used to be an old bug that's now considered fixed in the meteor-cucumber repo.

Any ideas?