Question

I’m writing a spec for a controller in Rails 3 project using RSpec and Capybara, and I want to select current date from a select box. I tried:

select Date.today, :from => 'Date of birth'

but the spec fails and I get error:

Failure/Error: select Date.today, :from => ‘Date of birth’
NoMethodError:
undefined method `to_xpath’ for Mon, 18 Jul 2011:Date

How to fix it?

P.S. In view file I use simple_form_for tag and the select box is generated by code:

f.input :date_of_birth

Answer 1

You need to specify the exact value as it’s in the select menu in html. So if your select has values like “2011/01/01” then you need to write:

select '2011/01/01', :from => 'Date of birth'

Your code fails because you pass a date object.