In large forms (30+ controls) new Capybara version become [extremely slow] when filling out fields. It takes several seconds per input. The reason for this is that Capybara generates a huge slow XPath expression Show archive.org snapshot to find the field.

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The attached code patches fill_in with a much faster implementation. It's a dirty fix and probably does a lot less than Capybara's own fill_in so don't use it unless you are having problems with test suites that are unusable because of this problem.

To use the patch in Cucumber, copy it to features/support.