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DevArenaCN
DevArenaCN

Reputation: 131

How to test if there's a certain link on the returned page in Rails using Rspec and Capybara?

I'm writing tests for a project and this is the first time I'm writing tests on Rails and I'm having a little trouble. Here's the situation, after I click on Submit, on the page returned I should have a link called "View" with a certain url. So what I'm doing is this:

    it 'should be able to review' do
#submit review
      click_on 'Submit'

      #expect result
      expect(page).to have_link('View', href: "/response/view?a_id=#{@a.id}")
    end

And I'm sure that the link exists on the page because I tested this manually, and if I delete the line expect(page) the test will pass. Is there something wrong with what I wrote? Also, I tried expect(page).to have_link('View') and it does not work either. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 636

Answers (1)

Agush
Agush

Reputation: 5116

I would say you have to debug the test, with the Capybara instruction save_and_open_page so you can actually confirm what the page is rendering and what is happening.

For this you have to install the launchy gem

Here is a useful link: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy#capybara-testing to set it up and see how it works

Upvotes: 1

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