Question

A similar problem happened to me when I was doing an example problem. Capybara was not picking the text that was there. In this Capybara is not picking the link for the object that is there. Am I missing something?

Error message:

When I click the link "Why is earth round?"            # features/step_definitions/queston_steps.rb:6
      no link with title, id or text 'Why is earth round?' found (Capybara::ElementNotFound)
      (eval):2:in `click_link'
      ./features/step_definitions/queston_steps.rb:7:in `/^I click the link "([^"]*)"$/'
      features/viewing_questions.feature:9:in `When I click the link "Why is earth round?"'

These are my test gems:

group :test, :development do
  gem 'rspec-rails'
end

group :test do
  gem 'cucumber-rails'
  gem 'capybara'
  gem 'database_cleaner'
  gem 'factory_girl'
  gem 'factory_girl_rails'
end

These are my codes.

Scenario:

Scenario: Listing questions
Given I am on the home page
And there is a question "Why is earth round?"
When I click the link "Why is earth round?"
Then I should be on the page for "Why is earth round?"
And I should see "Question: Why is earth round?"

Factory definition:

Factory.define(:queston) do |q|
  q.question "Why is earth round?"
end

Step definition:

Given /^there is a question "([^"]*)"$/ do |question|
  FactoryGirl.create(:queston, :question => question)
  #Queston.create(:question => question)
end

When /^I click the link "([^"]*)"$/ do |link|
  click_link(link)
end

View:

<ul>
    <% @questons.each do |queston| %>
        <li><%= link_to queston.question, queston %></li>
    <% end %>
</ul>

Queston is the model class and question is its attribute.

Answer 1

The problem was with my scenario. I have to simply declare the object first, like this:

Scenario: Listing questions
Given there is a question "Why is earth round?"
And I am on the home page

Instead of

Scenario: Listing questions
Given I am on the home page
And there is a question "Why is earth round?"