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Rails 4 Test Prescriptions
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Rails 4 Test Prescriptions

by Noel Rappin
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
8h 43m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Setting Up Capybara

Capybara allows an automated test to simulate a user interaction with a browser. When simulating this interaction, Capybara works in conjunction with a driver, using the simple Capybara API to determine what elements to interact with and using the driver to manage the actual interaction. By default Capybara uses a native Ruby library that doesn’t manage JavaScript interactions, but it can be configured to use a headless browser such as PhantomJS or Selenium to allow JavaScript interactions to be simulated.

Capybara and RSpec

Capybara is designed for use with RSpec, and if you want to use them together, add Capybara to your Gemfile’s testing group:

 
gem "capybara"

You also need to add the following line to your rails_helper.rb ...

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