Reload the page in your Cucumber features

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Both these approaches will keep your GET parameters -- and will only work for GET requests.

  • Capybara:

    When /^I reload the page$/ do
  visit [ current_path, page.driver.request.env['QUERY_STRING'] ].reject(&:blank?).join('?')
end

  • Webrat:

    When /^I reload the page$/ do
  visit url_for(request.params)
end

For a step that distinguishes between drivers (Selenium, Rack::Test, Culerity), check n4k3d.com Show archive.org snapshot .

Arne Hartherz
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