Question

Using cucumber and capybara to test a rails app. Assuming I cannot change the markup, can I use capybara to select the following select in a page full of similar tds and selects?

<td>
  <select name="attributes[ruby][category]">
    <option value="2" selected="selected">Languages</option>
    <option value="3">Communication</option>
  </select>
</td>

This seems to fail (I assume because of the nested “[” and “]”).

find("select[name=attributes[ruby][category]]")

Escaping doesn’t work either. Thoughts?

Answer 1

You can try find('select', :name => 'attributes[ruby][category]') or find_field('attributes[ruby][category]').