How to select date from a select box using Capybara in Rails 3?

Question

I\'m writing a spec for a controller in Rails 3 project using RSpec and Capybara, and I want to select current date from a select box. I tried:

select Date.t         


        

Answer 1

with credit to Markus Hartmair for an excellent solution, I prefer to use labels as selectors because of improved readability. So my version of his helper module is:

module SelectDateHelper
  def select_date(date, options = {})
    field = options[:from]
    base_id = find(:xpath, ".//label[contains(.,'#{field}')]")[:for]
    year, month, day = date.split(',')
    select year,  :from => "#{base_id}_1i"
    select month, :from => "#{base_id}_2i"
    select day,   :from => "#{base_id}_3i"
  end
end

call it like this:

select_date "2012,Jan,1", :from => "From date"