Sometimes you need a piece of code to do something different for specs than for features. If you don't...
The User-Agent HTTP header identifies the client and is sent by "regular" browsers, search engine crawlers, or other web...
When a controller action redirects to an external URL (like http://somehost.com/some/path) you will find that this is hard...
Unfortunately, Capybara does not offer a switch to disable cookies in your test browser. However, you can work around that...
To set a cookie in your test browser for cucumber tests, you need to know which driver you are using...
The following code doesn't work like expected: page.find(css_selector).find(other_css_selector) The second .find will search...
If you open a pop-up window [1] in your Selenium tests and you want to close it, you can...
Calling bundle update GEMNAME will update a lot more gems than you think. E.g. when you do this...
Capybara uses www.example.com as the default hostname when making requests. If your application does something specific on certain hostnames and...
Selenium cannot reliably control a browser when its window is not in focus, or when you accidentally interact with the...
The gem author Jonas Nicklas highlights in a Google Groups post that the release is not backwards compatible to 1...
Capybara gives you two different methods for executing Javascript: page.evaluate_script("$('input').focus()") page.execute_script("$('input').focus()")
Generally, Selenium tests use the browser to interact with the page. If it's unavailable, a timeout error is...
If you're using the Capybara webdriver, steps sometimes fail because the browser hasn't finished loading the next page...
Give your iframe a name attribute (i.e. ) and then simply use When I press "Foo" in the iframe "myframe"
Cucumber_rails' old-school web-steps have been deprecated for a while, urging developers to write high-level step definitions...
The step definition below allows you to write: Then I should see an HTML redirect to "http://www.makandracards.com" in the...
A print stylesheet is easy to create. Choose a font suited for paper, hide some elements, done. Unfortunately print stylesheets...
The step we used in the past (Then "foo" should not be visibile) doesn't reliably work in Selenium features...
Applications often show or hide elements based on viewport dimensions, or may have components that behave differently (like mobile vs...
In a nutshell: Capybara's find will not work properly on nodes from a list. Don't find on elements...
In large forms (30+ controls) new Capybara version become [extremely slow] when filling out fields. It takes several seconds per...
Sometimes you need a special version of chrome because it has some features you need for testing, like in this...
You can set the resolution and user agent used in selenium tests with chrome with the method described in this...