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Selenium WebDriver 2.5.0, 2.6.0 fails when selecting options from select boxes

Henning Koch
September 20, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

We are consistently having trouble with selenium-webdriver > 2.5.0 where whenever we try to select an option from a <select> Capybara complains:

No such option 'Foo' in this select box. Available options: 'Foo', 'Bar', 'Baz' (Capybara::OptionNotFound)
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This seems to happen with both old and new versions of Firefox. Our workaround so far is to freeze the gem at version 0.2.2.

Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2011-09-20 14:34)