MacksMind

I’ve been using Cucumber and Webrat for only a couple months now. Today I needed something new and it wasn’t obvious how to make it work.

Here’s an example of a test in Cucumber:

Given I am Sam
When I follow "Foo"
Then the "Bar" field should contain "Baz"

Which relies on Webrat:

Then /^the "([^"]*)" field should contain "([^"]*)"$/ do |field, value|
  field_labeled(field).value.should =~ /#{value}/
end

But what if it’s not a text field? What if it’s a select? Then we need to check which value is selected.

Given Sam I am
When I follow "Foo"
Then "Baz" should be selected for "Bar"

Here’s my solution:

Then /^"([^"]*)" should be selected for "([^"]*)"$/ do |value, field|
  field_labeled(field).element.search(".//option[@selected = 'selected']").inner_html.should =~ /#{value}/
end

Hope this helps!