Capybara: Select an option by value not text

Answer 1

That helper method is pretty clever. I would change it just a little bit:

def select_by_value(id, value)

  option_xpath = "//*[@id='#{id}']/option[@value='#{value}']"

  find(:xpath, option_xpath).click

end

or just:

find(:xpath, "//select[@id='date']/option[@value='20120904']").click