Get select value of dropdown for capybara testing

Question

I have to write tests for a web site. I am trying to get the selected value of a dropdown box. So far i can get the contents of the dropdown by doing

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Answer 1

There's a have_select matcher if you use Capybara with Rspec:

expect(page).to have_select('my-select', selected: 'Option 2')