Comments on: Verifying select field value with Cucumber and Webrat

By: James

James — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:46:02 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I suggest that you use the following regex to insure that you don’t get false positives:

/^#{value}$/

e.g. Without the anchors, if the selected value is “Mrs” and I expect “Mr”, it will still match and return a false positive result.

By: Ganesh Shankar

Ganesh Shankar — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:31:35 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I’m actually using Capybara so I had to rework your step to get it to work. For those other Capybara users out there… this is what you need:

Then /^”([^"]*)” should be selected for “([^"]*)”$/ do |value, field|
find_field(field).node.xpath(“.//option[@selected = 'selected']“).inner_html.should =~ /#{value}/
end

Cheers,
Ganesh

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:02:32 +0000

Florent, your fix worked for me as well. field_labeled was always giving an error saying it couldn’t find the field. Thanks!

By: Damien White

Damien White — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:15:59 +0000

Great post, worked like a charm.

By: Florent

Florent — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:48:31 +0000

Very Well then.

It didn’t work for me because of the field_labeled.
It works now with field_named(field) :)

Thanks for your post !

By: Mack Earnhardt

Mack Earnhardt — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:04:19 +0000

It works for me as is. Those quotes aren’t delimiters in this context, and I want to capture everything between the quotes in the () backreference.

By: Florent

Florent — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:58:24 +0000

Exactly what I needed, but did you forget to escape auotes in your regexp ?

“([^\"]*)” instead of “([^"]*)”

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:52:58 +0000

I don’t know if this is a new feature, but i’m using webrat 0.6 and

field_labeled(field).value

works just fine for select boxes also. You’re then just matching against the option value, not the text.

By: Rob Aldred

Rob Aldred — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:58:49 +0000

Perfect, thank you for your post

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:06:35 +0000

Thanks for this solution, saved me some time!