minitest-capybara

Capybara matchers support for minitest unit & spec

Why?

Capybara has good support for RSpec. If you want to use it with minitest, you can of course write:

assert page.has_content?("Hello")

but:

it's kinda ugly
you don't have meaningfull error messages.

With this project minitest gets all the good stuff.

Usage

Add to Gemfile:

# Gemfile
group :test do
  gem "minitest-capybara"
end

Next, I like to create seperate test class for acceptance tests. Note, Rails 4.0 will support minitest/spec out of the box, so you would just subclass ActiveSupport::TestCase instead of MiniTest::Spec.

# test/test_helper.rb
require "capybara/rails"

class AcceptanceTest < MiniTest::Spec
  include Capybara::RSpecMatchers
  include Capybara::DSL
end

Finally, you can use it like this:

# test/acceptance/home_test.rb
require "test_helper"

class HomeTest < AcceptanceTest
  it "home test" do
    visit "/"
    must_have_content "Homepage"
  end
end

Capybara drivers

Switching drivers is easy with minitest-metadata:

require 'minitest-metadata'

class AcceptanceTest
  before do
    if metadata[:js]
      Capybara.current_driver = Capybara.javascript_driver
    else
      Capybara.current_driver = Capybara.default_driver
    end
  end
end

class HomeTest < AcceptanceTest
  it "home with ajax", js: true do
    visit "/"
    must_have_content "AJAX enabled..."
  end
end

License

(The MIT License)

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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