Question

I am using Capybara to do some testing on a website which has a table on it that holds a variable amount of data and is generated by google visualisation. The table has no ID value and I have been told there is no way of putting an ID field in.

Is there any other way to find a table and then be able to pull in and look through the data in the table in capybara/ruby? I know what data should be in the table and want to check that it is displaying the correct results.

Thanks

Answer 1

You could use xpath:

find(:xpath, "//table/tr")

Or standard finders a la jQuery:

find("table")

Sidenote, remember you can chain find calls.

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Since you’ve a class, use it!

find(".class_name")
find(".google-visualization-table-table")