rails rspec capybara select not working

Question

In my rails app, I have a select on the navigation bar as follows:

<body>
  <div id="wrapper">

  <!-- Navigation -->
  <nav role="navigation" style="margin-bottom: 0">
    <div class="navbar-default sidebar hidden-sm hidden-xs" role="navigation">
      <div class="sidebar-nav">
        <ul class="nav" id="side-menu">
          <li>
            <h4 class="sidebar-title">SGPLAN</h4>
          </li>
          <li class="logo">
            <form action="#">
              <select name="" id="change_plan" class="form-control plan">
                <option value="1" id="plan_id" selected="">first </option>
                <option value="2" id="plan_id">other </option>
              </select>
            </form>
          </li>

and javascript in application.js to load the home page when the user selects a different option.

$(document).ready(function() {
    //...
    $('#change_plan').on('change', function(){
        var str = ''
        str += $( this ).val() + " ";
        setCookie("plan", str,1);
        window.location.href = "/";
    })
});

I have written the following test for this feature using rspec, capybara and capybara-webkit:

require 'rails_helper'

feature "Change plan", :js do
  background do
    login_as create(:admin_user), scope: :user
    Agency.current = Agency.find_by(initials: 'SECTI').id
    FactoryGirl.create(:other_plan)
    Plan.current = Plan.find_by(name: 'first').id
  end

  scenario "User changes the current plan" do
    visit "/milestones"
    save_and_open_page
    select('other', from: 'change_plan')
    # within '#change_plan' do
    #   find("option[value='2']").click
    # end
    # find('#change_plan').find('option', text: 'other').select_option
    expect(current_path).to eq("/")
  end
end

save_and_open_page results in the html snippet as shown above.

The result of running the test is as follows:

Failures:

  1) Change plan User changes the current plan
     Failure/Error: expect(current_path).to eq("/")

       expected: "/"
            got: "/milestones"

       (compared using ==)
     # ./spec/features/plans/change_plan_spec.rb:19:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 1 minute 1.71 seconds (files took 2.04 seconds to load)
1 example, 1 failure

If I use find('#change_plan')... or find("option...") (as per the commented out lines) in the test instead of the select, the result is the same.

My versions are follows (from Gemfile.lock ):

capybara (2.7.1)
capybara-webkit (1.11.1)
database_cleaner (1.5.3)
factory_girl_rails (4.7.0)
rails (4.2.5)
rspec-core (3.5.4)
rspec-expectations (3.5.0)
rspec-mocks (3.5.0)
rspec-rails (3.5.2)

and ruby 2.3.0p0 (2015-12-25 revision 53290) [x86_64-linux]

What do I need to do get this test to work? Should I be using a different test platform? We are relatively committed to rspec but less so to capybara.

Update

I finally got this working with the help of Thomas and employing multiple suggestions that he provided.

There was a javascript error with the capybara webkit driver.
I tried the selenium driver but got a 503 error at the visit /milestones step.
I then switched to the poltergeist driver and found that the wait behaviour was also an issue - so I had to use have_current_path.

Answer 1

You shouldn't be using the eq matcher with current_path since it has no waiting/retrying behavior. This means you're checking the path before the page has time to change. Instead use the have_current_path matcher provided by Capybara

expect(page).to have_current_path('/')

rails rspec capybara select not working

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0 ACCPTED 2016-12-09 15:49:50

rails rspec capybara select not working

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1 answers

solution1 0 ACCPTED 2016-12-09 15:49:50

solution1
0 ACCPTED 2016-12-09 15:49:50