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varneohas
varneohas

Reputation: 71

nested forms with capybara

I have a post model with

    accepts_nested_attributes_for :views, :allow_destroy => :true,
      :reject_if => proc { |attrs| attrs.all? { |k, v| v.blank? } }

And a views model with

    belongs_to :post, inverse_of: :views

In posts/_forms.html.erb

    <%= post_form.fields_for :views do |builder| %>
    <%= render 'view_fields', f: builder %>
    <% end %>
    <%= link_to_add_fields "Add new View", post_form, :views %>

In posts/_view_fields.html.erb

    <fieldset>
    <%= f.label :name, "View name:" %>
    <%= f.text_field :name %>
    <%= f.hidden_field :_destroy %>
    <%= link_to "remove", '#', class: "remove_fields" %>
    </fieldset>

Now in my rspec, I want to fill the f.text_field with some value.

Tried the following:

  fill_in 'post_views_first_name', with: "I support"
  fill_in 'post_view_name', with: "I support"
  fill_in 'post_views_name', with: "I support"

None of the them work. How do I call fill_in on this field?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 911

Answers (2)

Epigene
Epigene

Reputation: 3908

While @Stephen's answer is on the right track, namely that you need to specify the id attribute value of the input field, and it's gonna have some number in it, it does not cover the case when a new nested resource is being added and it does not yet have a nice id. It will tend to get some generated number, for example the HTML may come out like this:

<div class="post_views_content>
  <textarea class="text required" name="post[views_attributes][1711119995807][content]" id="post_views_attributes_1711119995807_name"></textarea>

In this case you can still try to find the input element and obtain its id to pass into fill_in helper:

input_id = find(".post_views_content textarea")["id"]
fill_in input_id, with: "I support"

Upvotes: 1

Stephen
Stephen

Reputation: 187

I'm using a the capybara screenshot gem (Which I highly suggest!). I have a nested form with projects belonging to users. And it accepts

fill_in 'user_projects_attributes_0_name', with: "Name"

So for you, I suggest grabbing the gem for sure. But also try this:

fill_in 'post_views_attributes_0_first_name', with: "I support"

Upvotes: 1

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