Actually there are issues with it. If you use the gem mysql2, for example, you’ll start seeing some errors like: Mysql2::Error This connection is still waiting for a result Please use this instead. It was written by Mike Perham, all credits to him. class ActiveRecord::Base mattr_accessor :shared_connection @@shared_connection = nil def self.connection @@shared_connection || ConnectionPool::Wrapper.new(:size … Read more
I found the following worked for me: # Check find(:css, “#cityID[value=”62″]”).set(true) # Uncheck find(:css, “#cityID[value=”62″]”).set(false)
I’m not sure of the intended use of default_host, but app_host does what you need. I’ve found I first need to call the rails session method host! in order to set the host string that will be passed to controllers in the request object. Then you need to set Capybara.app_host to tell Capybara to call … Read more
More recently I found this great blog post. Which is great for the cases like Tony and where you really want to post something in your cuke: For my case this became: def send_log(file, project) proj = Project.find(:first, :conditions => “name=”#{project}””) f = File.new(File.join(::Rails.root.to_s, file)) page.driver.post(“projects/” + proj.id.to_s + “/log?upload_path=” + f.to_path) page.driver.status_code.should eql 200 … Read more
I’ve read the Capybara readme at https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara and it solved my issue. Transactional fixtures only work in the default Rack::Test driver, but not for other drivers like Selenium. Cucumber takes care of this automatically, but with Test::Unit or RSpec, you may have to use the database_cleaner gem. See this explanation (and code for solution 2 … Read more
I had the same issues when I upgraded to Capybara 2.0, and managed to solve them by creating the following custom RSpec matcher using Capybara.string: spec/support/utilities.rb RSpec::Matchers::define :have_title do |text| match do |page| Capybara.string(page.body).has_selector?(‘title’, text: text) end end Now, in a spec file where subject { page }, I can use: it { should have_title(“My … Read more
The selenium driver now supports this From Capybara you would access it like this: page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.accept or page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.dismiss or page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.text
Webdriver doesn’t contain an API to do it. See issue 141 from Selenium tracker for more info. The title of the issue says that it’s about response headers but it was decided that Selenium won’t contain API for request headers in scope of this issue. Several issues about adding API to set request headers have … Read more