HTML5 Drag and Drop using Selenium Webdriver for Ruby

Question

Are there any work arounds to getting HTML5 Drag and Drop working with Selenium Webdriver with Ruby? I am using Selenium-Webdriver 2.20.0 with Ruby 1.9.2

Here is a

Answer 1

Here is how to get drag and drop (dnd) to work with Capybara/Selenium for cucumber tests. Basically calling dnd directly from Capybara using the drag_to method does not work. You have to drop out of Capybara into Selenium, and when using Selenium use click_and_hold method followed by drag_and_drop and then release for dnd to work. Here is the code:

#jump out of capybara for dnd

#selenium web driver accessed directly using page.driver.browser
source_selenium_ele = page.driver.browser.find_element(:xpath, "//draggable-element")
target_selenium_ele = page.driver.browser.find_element(:xpath, "//destination-element")

#drag and drop actions
page.driver.browser.action.click_and_hold(source_selenium_ele).perform
page.driver.browser.action.drag_and_drop(source_selenium_ele, target_selenium_ele).perform
page.driver.browser.action.release.perform

#jump back into capybara...