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James Healy
James Healy

Reputation: 15168

How can I simulate the browser back button in Capybara?

We have a issue on our e-commerce site where users occasionally hit "checkout" twice and have their card charged twice.

It's a common enough bug and easy to fix, but I'd like to test the solution in our capybara setup. Once I've called click_button('checkout'), is it possible for me to pretend I'm a user hitting the browsers back button and then call click_button('checkout') a second time?

Upvotes: 35

Views: 13727

Answers (5)

apepper
apepper

Reputation: 421

At least with capybara 2.10 and selenium-webdriver 2.53 this works:

When(/^I go back$/) do
  page.go_back
end

It's basically a shortcut for jbarr's answer. For details more see the capybara documentation on go_back .

BTW: The counter part is page.go_forward.

Upvotes: 8

jbarrieault
jbarrieault

Reputation: 464

You can use page.driver.go_back, if you are using webkit as your capybara javascript driver via the capybara-webkit gem. Also requires :js => true for the scenario.

Upvotes: 11

Tamar
Tamar

Reputation: 2066

Thanks! This question and answer helped me a lot!

Just to add to @Jake Mallory's answer, selenium is now part of capybara and you can fairly easily run javascript in the test by adding :js => true (and possibly a couple more tweaks) as described in these two tutorials:

http://www.opinionatedprogrammer.com/2011/02/capybara-and-selenium-with-rspec-and-rails-3/ http://railscasts.com/episodes/257-request-specs-and-capybara?view=asciicast

Upvotes: 0

Jake Mallory
Jake Mallory

Reputation: 401

You may want to try:

When(/^I go back$/) do
  page.evaluate_script('window.history.back()')
end

This will require running the senario in a javascript capable driver (selenium/celerity/akephalos)

Upvotes: 40

Nate Bird
Nate Bird

Reputation: 5335

I've used this method in Webrat. I'm sure something similar for Capybara would work.

When(/^I go back$/) do
  visit request.env['HTTP_REFERER']
end

Side note: the "redirect_to :back" method didn't work for me for whatever reason.

Upvotes: 1

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