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

In my particular situation, I'm adding potentially multiple date select fields to the page with accepts_nested_attributes_for functionality. This means, I'm not sure what the full id or name of the fields are going to be.

Here's the solution I came up with in case it helps anyone else Googling this:

I'm wrapping the date select field in a container div with a class:

  <%= f.date_select :date_of_birth %>

Then in my feature spec:

within '.date-of-birth-container' do
  find("option[value='1']", text: 'January').select_option
  find("option[value='1']", text: '1').select_option
  find("option[value='1955']").select_option
end

Here's a helper method I wrote for it:

def select_date_within_css_selector(date, css_selector)
  month_name = Date::MONTHNAMES.fetch(date.month)
  within css_selector do
    find("option[value='#{date.month}']", text: month_name).select_option
    find("option[value='#{date.day}']", text: date.day.to_s).select_option
    find("option[value='#{date.year}']").select_option
  end
end

Then using the helper:

select_date_within_css_selector(Date.new(1955, 1, 1), '.date-of-birth-container')