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Cucumber Recipes
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Cucumber Recipes

by Ian Dees, Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy
February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 45m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Recipe 30Parse HTML Tables

Problem

You’re testing a web page containing tabular data (or any repeating data, really), and you need to compare the contents to a table in your Cucumber scenario.

Ingredients

  • Capybara[193] for testing web applications

  • Capybara’s arsenal of finders[194] for traversing patterns in HTML

  • XPath[195] for describing the locations of objects on the page

Solution

Capybara is a Ruby web testing library. It provides a simple API for visiting web pages and parsing the results. Behind the scenes, Capybara will either launch a real browser (for non-Ruby web apps) or call directly into the server code (for Ruby apps built on Rails, Sinatra, or any other Rack framework).

In this recipe, you’ll serve a simple static site ...

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