Capybara choose method Unable to find radio button - forms

Question

I have a form which is generated by simple form:
TL TR
<div class="form-group radio_buttons required user_register_temp_package">
<label class="radio_buttons required control-label">
<abbr title="zorunlu">
*
</abbr>
Paket
</label>
<label class="radio">
<input class="radio_buttons required" id="user_register_temp_attributes_domain_package_id_1" name="user[register_temp_attributes][domain_package_id]" type="radio" value="1">
Small
</label>
<label class="radio">
<input checked="checked" class="radio_buttons required" id="user_register_temp_attributes_domain_package_id_2" name="user[register_temp_attributes][domain_package_id]" type="radio" value="2">
Medium
</label>
<label class="radio">
<input class="radio_buttons required" id="user_register_temp_attributes_domain_package_id_3" name="user[register_temp_attributes][domain_package_id]" type="radio" value="3">
Large
</label>
</div>
TL TR
I have a simple spec like this:
# encoding: UTF-8
require 'spec_helper'
feature 'Register' do
background do
visit new_user_registration_path
end
scenario 'fill register form and register' do
# TL TR
choose('user_register_temp_attributes_domain_package_id_1')
# TL TR
end
end
My spec_helper.rb is
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'test'
require File
.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)
require 'rspec/rails'
require 'rspec/autorun'
require 'capybara/rspec'
Capybara.javascript_driver = :webkit
Capybara.default_selector = :css
Dir[Rails.root.join('spec/support/**/*.rb')].each { |f| require f }
ActiveRecord::Migration.check_pending! if defined?(ActiveRecord::Migration)
RSpec.configure do |config|
# ## Mock Framework
#
# If you prefer to use mocha, flexmock or RR, uncomment the appropriate line:
#
# config.mock_with :mocha
# config.mock_with :flexmock
# config.mock_with :rr
# Remove this line if you're not using ActiveRecord or ActiveRecord fixtures
config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"
# If you're not using ActiveRecord, or you'd prefer not to run each of your
# examples within a transaction, remove the following line or assign false
# instead of true.
config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
# If true, the base class of anonymous controllers will be inferred
# automatically. This will be the default behavior in future versions of
# rspec-rails.
config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false
# Run specs in random order to surface order dependencies. If you find an
# order dependency and want to debug it, you can fix the order by providing
# the seed, which is printed after each run.
# --seed 1234
config.order = 'random'
# Capybara DSL
config.include Capybara::DSL
# Factory girl
config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
end
The Capybara API for the choose method says:
"Find a radio button and mark it as checked. The radio button can be found via name, id or label text."
But when I run spec with choose('user_register_temp_attributes_domain_package_id_1'), I get
Capybara::ElementNotFound: Unable to find radio button "user_register_temp_attributes_domain_package_id_1"
I've tried code below but got Capybara::ElementNotFound: Unable to find css "user_register_temp_attributes_domain_package_id_1" error:
find('#user_register_temp_attributes_domain_package_id_1[value=1]').set(true)
It seems there is no problem with fill_in, check or click_button methods.
Regards.

Answer 1

Most likely underlying driver thinks that this radio button is invisible. By default Capybara finds only visible elements (as Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements is true by default) so it didn't find that element.
Try:
choose('user_register_temp_attributes_domain_package_id_1', visible: false)
You can improve error message by submitting a pull request to Capybara.