Handling duplicate links with Capybara and Cucumber

Sometimes, you might have duplicate links on a page. Trying to click those links will by default cause Capybara to raise an Ambiguous match error.

If you do not care about which of those links are clicked, you can disable this errors by adding the following meta step:

When(/^(.*) \[allow ambiguous\]$/)do |step_text|
  prior_match_strategy = Capybara.match
  Capybara.match = :first
  step(step_text)
ensure
  Capybara.match = prior_match_strategy
end

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When I follow "a duplicate link" [allow ambiguous]

Tobias Kraze

makandra.de

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Last edit

Over 3 years ago

Henning Koch

Keywords

match, prefer, exact

License

Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.

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This note describes a Cucumber step that lets you write this:

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gem 'mime-types', '< 2' # dependeny of capybara

...

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The step definition below lets you say:

 Then I should see a field "Password"
 But I should not see a field "Role"

Here is the step definition:

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You can use the step definition below to say this:

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Capybara

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  expectation = negate ? :should_not...

Posted by Tobias Kraze to makandra dev (2020-02-17 16:37)

Handling duplicate links with Capybara and Cucumber

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