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

Would something like this work?

within("//select[@id='restrictions__rating_movies']") do
  find_field("//option[@selected='selected']").text
end