How to test post request and follow redirects with capybara?

Question

I'm trying to test a post request with capybara and cucumber. I can't visit a page and press a link to send the request because it has a confirm dialogue and I haven't made it work with javascript so I'm trying to use the post method and then test if it redirects to the appropriated url but I'm getting:

No response yet. Request a page first. (Rack::Test::Error)

My code is:

page.driver.post url
page.driver.status_code.should be 302
follow_redirect!

It's working fine until follow_redirect!. I've tried page.driver.follow_redirects! but it doesn't work either.

Any help?

Which webdriver are you using? – weexpectedTHIS Sep 24 '12 at 17:23 — weexpectedTHIS, Sep 24 '12 at 17:23
I'm using default driver: rack_test – Bishma Stornelli Sep 27 '12 at 17:27 — Bishma Stornelli, Sep 27 '12 at 17:27

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 13 '15 at 04:22

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Capybara::Rails::TestCase.class_eval do
  def post(url)
    page.driver.post url
    visit page.driver.response.location
  end
end

answered Sep 13 '15 at 04:22

grosser

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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I would recommend you to dismiss the confirm dialogue by using this:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2609244/560123

That way you wouldn't care about making the post by yourself, and instead trust your application code to do the post request.

Regards

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered Oct 17 '12 at 15:54

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How to test post request and follow redirects with capybara?

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