CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-railsrspeccapybara
InesM
InesM

Reputation: 343

capybara click_link with question mark parameters

I'm trying to make a test in rails using Rspec + Capybara + FactoryGirl.

In my page the user can click a link that is generated like this:

<a href="<%= email_path(emails: booking.dummy_user.email) %>" title="<%= t(".send_email") %>" id="send_email_dummy_<%= booking.dummy_user.id %>" >
    <span class="icon-envelope"></span>
</a>

In my test I'm doing :

click_link "send_email_dummy_" + dummy_user.id.to_s
current_path.should eq(email_path(locale: "en", emails: dummy_user.email))

However instead of the test passing it is returning:

expected: "/en/email?emails=student%40email.com"
     got: "/en/email"

I printed the page generated by the test and the link is correctly generated:

<a href="/en/email?emails=student%40email.com" title="Send Email" id="send_email_dummy_1" >
    <span class="icon-envelope"></span>
</a>

Anyone has any idea why this might be happening?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 714

Answers (1)

Thomas Walpole
Thomas Walpole

Reputation: 49880

Don't use eq with current_path or current_url in Capybara, you'll regret it as soon as you start using a driver that supports JS and things become asynchronous. Instead use the have_current_path matcher

page.should have_current_path(email_path(locale: "en", emails: dummy_user.email))

by default that will include the path with query parameters in the match (which you want in your case). If you don't want them included you can do

page.should have_current_path(email_path(locale: "en", emails: dummy_user.email), only_path: true)

and if you want to compare the whole url you can do

page.should have_current_path(email_path(locale: "en", emails: dummy_user.email), url: true)

Upvotes: 2

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