Poltergeist is a Capybara driver for PhantomJS.
Poltergeist is a driver for Capybara. It allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless WebKit browser, provided by PhantomJS.
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Why do RSpec feature specs using Capybara, Poltergeist and Javascript fail inconsistently?
Hi fellow software developers,
I have a Rails app with a usual testsuite set up (RSpec, Capybara, Poltergeist, jQuery, Rails). I use a little Javascript(jQuery) for remote requests. Basically it works and I don't understand my problem yet. So I may…
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autocomplete method refuses to fire in RSpec test
I am on Day 4 of trying to get an autocomplete field to fire in an RSpec test. Works super in the browser, it is just incredibly resistant to running in my request specs.
UPDATE: It looks like my RSpec/Capy scripts are running against the dev db…
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Minimal Capybara / Poltergeist test returning empty page
It appears I'm retracing the steps taken in the SO post: Capybara, Poltergeist and Phantomjs and giving an empty response in body. (Mark this as a duplicate if you want, but I'm including a minimal standalone test case and version…
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capybara-webkit cannot simulate click on (non link/button) element
In an rspec feature scenario I have:
scenario 'shows things', js: true do
page.find('#my_div').trigger(:click)
This doesn't seem to fire the jQuery handler that's on the click event of this element. In the debugger this call returns an empty…
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NotImplementedError when switching to Poltergeist
I have this cucumber step definitions that work with Selenium but I get NotImplementedError when I try them with the poltergeist driver.
phantom.js is installed and I can even take screenshots from my step definitions that look right. I'm testing an…
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Capybara Poltergeist feature test failing on CI but passes locally
I'm having weird issues with some of my feature tests using Capybara with poltergeist driver.
The test should perform a simple checkout in my online shop.
They all pass fine on my local MacBook as well as on an Ubuntu vagrant box. However on CI…
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Capybara, Poltergeist and Reactjs - 'undefined' is not a function
We started the process of integration Reactjs in our Rails 4.1 app. The thing is that a LOT of features are broken now.
Here is the stack for tests:
Cucumber
Capybara
Poltergeist (via phantomjs)
Rspec
For example, there is the cucumber feature:…
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How to download CSV file with poltergeist using Capybara on phantomjs?
For a integration test, I need to download a CSV file using poltergeist driver with Capybara. In selenium(for example firefox/chrom webdriver), I can specify download directory and it works fine. But in poltergeist, is there a way to specify the…
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How to retrieve innertext using capybara and poltergeist?
I have this simple HTML:
)> first(:xpath, '//div').text
=> "Test someting"
Using text() in my…
Test someting
How can I retrieve only the innertext of the div?
Using text retrieves all text from the div:
[1] pry(#
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Phantom JS Error with youtube video
Phantom JS Version: 1.9.1
Poltergeist Version: 1.3.0
Starting today youtube embedded videos now give a poltergeist error when running javascript tests. My youtube code is just the default embed youtube code. Here's a example: