Capybara Cheat Sheet

Let’s understand Capybara Cheat Sheet.

=Navigating=

visit(‘/projects’)

visit(post_comments_path(post))

 

=Clicking links and buttons=

click_link(‘id-of-link’)

click_link(‘Link Text’)

click_button(‘Save’)

click(‘Link Text’) # Click either a link or a button

click(‘Button Value’)

 

=Interacting with forms=

fill_in(‘First Name’, :with => ‘John’)

fill_in(‘Password’, :with => ‘Seekrit’)

fill_in(‘Description’, :with => ‘Really Long Text…’)

choose(‘A Radio Button’)

check(‘A Checkbox’)

uncheck(‘A Checkbox’)

attach_file(‘Image’, ‘/path/to/image.jpg’)

select(‘Option’, :from => ‘Select Box’)

 

=scoping=

within(“//li[@id=’employee’]”) do

fill_in ‘Name’, :with => ‘Jimmy’

end

within(:css, “li#employee”) do

fill_in ‘Name’, :with => ‘Jimmy’

end

within_fieldset(‘Employee’) do

fill_in ‘Name’, :with => ‘Jimmy’

end

within_table(‘Employee’) do

fill_in ‘Name’, :with => ‘Jimmy’

end

=Querying=

page.has_xpath?(‘//table/tr’)

page.has_css?(‘table tr.foo’)

page.has_content?(‘foo’)

page.should have_xpath(‘//table/tr’)

page.should have_css(‘table tr.foo’)

page.should have_content(‘foo’)

page.should have_no_content(‘foo’)

find_field(‘First Name’).value

find_link(‘Hello’).visible?

find_button(‘Send’).click

find(‘//table/tr’).click

locate(“//*[@id=’overlay'”).find(“//h1”).click

all(‘a’).each { |a| a[:href] }

 

=Scripting=

result = page.evaluate_script(‘4 + 4’);

 

=Debugging=

save_and_open_page

 

=Asynchronous JavaScript=

click_link(‘foo’)

click_link(‘bar’)

page.should have_content(‘baz’)

page.should_not have_xpath(‘//a’)

page.should have_no_xpath(‘//a’)

 

=XPath and CSS=

within(:css, ‘ul li’) { … }

find(:css, ‘ul li’).text

locate(:css, ‘input#name’).value

Capybara.default_selector = :css

within(‘ul li’) { … }

find(‘ul li’).text

locate(‘input#name’).value

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