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

Given the following Formtastic code renders Rails default date selector:

= f.input :born_on, end_year: Time.now.year, start_year: 60.years.ago.year

In your spec, break the date into separate calls to each individual select tag:

select '1956', from: 'person_born_on_1i'
select 'July', from: 'person_born_on_2i'
select '9', from: 'person_born_on_3i'

I don't like that this code is so aware of the HTML, but it does work with the versions of gems at this time.

Gems:

• Capybara 2.1.0
• Formtastic 2.2.1
• Rails 3.2.13
• RSpec 2.13.0