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minitest-capybara

:warning: This gem is no longer maintained as Capybara has added Minitest support upstream, use that instead.

Capybara matchers support for Minitest unit & spec.

Why?

Capybara has good support for RSpec.

If you want to use it with Minitest, you can of course write:

assert page.has_content?("Hello")

but:

1. it's kinda ugly
2. you don't have meaningfull error messages.

With this project Minitest gets all the good stuff.

Rails integration

minitest-capybara (and capybara) works with Rails out of the box, remember to require capybara/rails.

See example Rails app: https://github.com/wojtekmach/minitest-capybara-example.

For more features, check out: minitest-rails-capybara.

Usage

With minitest/test:

class HomeTest < Minitest::Capybara::Test
  def test_home
    visit "/"

    assert_content "Homepage"

    within ".login" do
      refute_content "Signed in as"
    end

    assert_link "Sign in"
    assert_link find(".login"), "Sign in"

    assert_selector 'li:first', text: "Item 1"
  end
end

With minitest/spec:

class HomeSpec < Minitest::Capybara::Spec
  it "works" do
    visit "/"

    page.must_have_content "Homepage"

    within ".login" do
      page.wont_have_content "Signed in as"
    end

    find(".login").must_have_link("Sign in")

    page.must_have_selector 'li:first', text: "Item 1"
  end
end

Instead of inheriting directly from Minitest::Capybara::Test (or Spec) it's usually better to create a custom test base class:

# test/acceptance_test_helper.rb
require "minitest/autorun"

class AcceptanceTest < Minitest::Capybara::Test
  # custom methods, before blocks etc.
end

If you need to inherit from a different base class (e.g. ActiveSupport::TestCase) you can do this instead:

# test/acceptance_test_helper.rb
require "test_helper"

class AcceptanceTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  include Minitest::Capybara::Behaviour

  # custom methods, before blocks etc.
end

Capybara drivers

Switching drivers is easy with minitest-metadata:

require 'minitest-metadata'

class AcceptanceSpec < Minitest::Capybara::Spec
  before do
    if metadata[:js]
      Capybara.current_driver = Capybara.javascript_driver
    else
      Capybara.current_driver = Capybara.default_driver
    end
  end
end

class HomeSpec < AcceptanceSpec
  it "home with ajax", js: true do
    visit "/"
    page.must_have_content "AJAX enabled..."
  end
end

License

minitest-capybara is released under the MIT License.