Question

Im using Capybara & I am trying to find some xpath that may or may not exist on a page.
I would like to be able to use a selector that I created myself (:tab_is_selected), so that I could search for an xpath like:

page.should have_xpath(:tab_is_selected, selectable)
Where selectable is the name of some tab.

If I use find, it just fails because the xpath does not always exist.

Does anyone know if there is some library in Capybara that could allow me to do this?
Otherwise I will have to write my own module.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I have been using:

page.has_selector?(:xpath, selectable).should == false

and

page.has_css?(selectable).should == true

http://rubydoc.info/github/jnicklas/capybara/master/Capybara/Node/Matchers