Exact match in capybara

Question

I'm having a problem with Capybara 2.1 to match exact text.

I have a select form looking like this one :

<select class='tags-select'>
  <option>Tag 1</options>
  <option>Tag 2</options>
</select>

My test should select Tag 2

page.find('.tags-select', :text => 'Tag 2').click

Otherwise that keeps selecting Tag 1 even with this Capybara config in my helper :

Capybara.configure do |config|
  config.match = :prefer_exact
  config.exact = true
  config.exact_options = true
  config.ignore_hidden_elements = true
  config.visible_text_only = true
  config.default_wait_time = 10
end

I know that I can use some regex here to avoid the problem, but I want to understand what I'm doing wrong with that test.

Answer 1

The main problem, based on the query.rb file, is that the :exact option does not apply to the :text option:

def matches_filters?(node)
  if options[:text]
    regexp = options[:text].is_a?(Regexp) ? options[:text] : Regexp.escape(options[:text].to_s)
    return false if not node.text(visible).match(regexp)
  end

So the finder:

page.click_link('id', :text => 'Password', :exact => true)

Will match both of the following elements

<a id="id" href="#">Password</a>

and

<a id="id" href="#">Password Other</a>

Your approach might also be failing because your find method is actually returning the select list rather than the option (ie I believe you are clicking the wrong element). The following will click the right option, however you would still have the exactness problem.

page.find('.tags-select option', :text => 'Tag 2').click

To address the exactness issue, you need to pass the text value to the finder without using the text option.

If you are just selecting an option, use the select method as DevDude mentioned:

page.find('.tags-select').select("Tag 2")

If you really need to do a click instead, you could do:

page.find('.tags-select').find(:option, 'Tag 2').click