Question

When you save_and_open_page, you can see that my form contains:

<label class="select optional control-label" for="assignment_role_id">Role</label>
  <select class="select optional" id="assignment_role_id" name="assignment[role_id]">
    <option value="819">admin</option>
    <option value="820">customer</option>
</select>

Why, then, won’t Capybara select the right item in the drop down menu? I get:

Failure/Error: select("customer", :from => :Role)
     Capybara::ElementNotFound:
       cannot select option, no option with text 'customer' in select box 'Role'

…and…

Failure/Error: select("customer", :from => :assignment_role_id)
     Capybara::ElementNotFound:
       cannot select option, no option with text 'customer' in select box 'assignment_role_id'

…and…

Failure/Error: select("customer", :from => :role_id)
     Capybara::ElementNotFound:
       cannot select option, no option with text 'customer' in select box 'role_id'

Answer 1

Solution was:

select("customer", :from => "assignment[role_id]")