choose does not select radio button
Reported by jazen | August 5th, 2009 @ 07:18 AM
I have several radio buttons like this:
<input id="user_class" name="user[class"] value="PrivateUser" />
<input id="user_class" name="user[class"] value="CompanyUser" />
...
Selecting the second one using
choose "CompanyUser"
does nothing. After digging into the source the problem seems to
be
the Locater which doesn't check the radio-button's value but
it's
name instead.
I'm using latest cucumber/webrat gems.
I temporarily fixed this issue by overwriting the webrat step with:
When /^I choose "([^\"]*)"$/ do |field|
dom = webrat.current_dom
radio_button = Webrat::XML.xpath_search(dom, ".//input[@type='radio']").detect do |element|
Webrat::XML.attribute(element, "value") == field
end
Webrat::Field.load(webrat, radio_button).choose
end
This works as expected. :)
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Larry Siden November 15th, 2009 @ 12:04 PM
I had the same problem. I have two different sets of radio buttons whose values are "yes" and "no". I had to resort to Jazen's method, which works, but is quite verbose!
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Bryan Helmkamp November 15th, 2009 @ 04:17 PM
- State changed from “new” to “resolved”
Generally I prefer to locate radio buttons by a label instead of the value. This also allows the application code to change it's representation while keeping the test code passing, so long as the UI stays constant.
Would this work for you?
It seems to make sense that choose would locate by value as well, but right now I'm considering the locators to be "frozen" until they can be reviewed and updated together once before Webrat 1.0. When this happens, I think that's a good change to consider.
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Ruby Acceptance Testing for Web applications.
Bryan Helmkamp
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