Release date: 2014-01-06
- Reverted a change in 2.2.0 which navigates to an empty file on
reset
. Capybara, now visitsabout:blank
like it did before. [Jonas Nicklas]
Release date: 2013-11-21
- Add
go_back
andgo_forward
methods. [Vasiliy Ermolovich] - Support RSpec 3 [Thomas Holmes]
has_button?
,has_checked_field?
andhas_unchecked_field?
accept options, like other matchers. [Carol Nichols]- The
assert_selector
andhas_text?
methods now support the:wait
option [Vasiliy Ermolovich] - RackTest's visible? method now checks for the HTML5
hidden
attribute. - Results from
#all
now delegate thesample
method. [Phil Lee] - The
set
method now works for contenteditable attributes under Selenium. [Jon Rowe] - radio buttons and check boxes can be filtered by option value, useful when selecting by name [Jonas Nicklas]
- feature blocks can be nested within other feature blocks in RSpec tests [Travis Gaff]
- Fixed race conditions causing stale element errors when filtering by text. [Jonas Nicklas]
- Resetting the page is now synchronous and navigates to an empty HTML file,
instead of
about:blank
, fixing hanging issues in JRuby. [Jonas Nicklas] - Fixed cookies not being set when path is blank under RackTest [Thomas Walpole]
- Clearing fields now correctly causes change events [Jonas Nicklas]
- Navigating to an absolut URI without trailing slash now works as expected under RackTest [Jonas Nicklas]
- Checkboxes without assigned value default to
on
under RackTest [Nigel Sheridan-Smith] - Clicks on buttons with no form associated with them are ignored in RackTest instead of raising an obscure exception. [Thomas Walpole]
- execute_script is now a session method [Andrey Botalov]
- Nesting
within_window
andwithin_frame
insidewithin
resets the scope so that they behave like a user would expect [Thomas Walpole] - Improve handling of newlines in textareas [Thomas Walpole]
Capybara::Result
delegates its inspect method, so as not to confuse users [Sam Rawlins]- save_page always returns a full path, fixes problems with Launchy [Jonas Nicklas]
- Selenium driver's
quit
method does nothing when browser hasn't been loaded [randoum] - Capybara's WEBRick server now propertly respects the server_host option [Dmitry Vorotilin]
- gemspec now includes license information [Jonas Nicklas]
Release date: 2013-04-09
- Hard version requirement on Ruby >= 1.9.3. Capybara will no longer install on 1.8.7. [Felix Schäfer]
- Capybara no longer depends on the
selenium-webdriver
gem. Add it to your Gemfile if you wish to use the Selenium driver. [Jonas Nicklas] Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements
defaults totrue
. [Jonas Nicklas]- In case of multiple matches
smart
matching is used by default. SetCapybara.match = :one
to revert to old behaviour. [Jonas Nicklas]. - Options in select boxes use smart matching and no longer need to match
exactly. Set
Capybara.exact_options = false
to revert to old behaviour. [Jonas Nicklas]. - Visibility of text depends on
Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements
instead of always returning only visible text. SetCapybara.visible_text_only = true
to revert to old behaviour. [Jonas Nicklas] - Cucumber cleans up session after scenario instead. This is consistent with
RSpec and makes more sense, since we raise server errors in
reset!
. [Jonas Nicklas]
- All actions (
click_link
,fill_in
, etc...) and finders now take an options hash, which is passed through tofind
. [Jonas Nicklas] - CSS selectors are sent straight through to driver instead of being converted
to XPath first. Enables the use of some pseudo selectors, such as
invalid
in some drivers. [Thomas Walpole] Capybara.asset_host
option, which inserts abase
tag into the page onsave_and_open_page
, eases debugging with the Rails asset pipeline. [Steve Hull]exact
option, can specify whether to match substrings or entire text. [Jonas Nicklas]match
option, can specify behaviour in case of multiple matches. [Jonas Nicklas]wait
option, can specify how long to wait for a given action/finder. [Jonas Nicklas]- Config option which disables bubbling of errors raised inside server. [Jonas Nicklas]
text
now takes a parameter which makes it possible to return either all text or only visible text. The default depends onCapybara.ignore_hidden_elements
.Capybara.visible_text_only
option is available for compatibility. [Jonas Nicklas]has_content?
andhas_text?
now take the same count options ashas_selector?
[Andrey Botalov]current_scope
is now public API, returns the current element whenwithin
is used. [Martijn Walraven]find("input").disabled?
returns true if a node is disabled. [Ben Lovell]- Find disabled fields and buttons with
:disabled => false
. [Jonas Nicklas] find("input").hover
moves the mouse to the element in supported drivers. [Thomas Walpole]- RackTest driver now support
form
attribute on form elements. [Thomas Walpole] page.title
returns the page title. [Terry Progetto]has_title?
matcher to assert on page title. [Jonas Nicklas]- The gem is now signed with a certicficate. The public key is available in the repo. [Jonas Nicklas]
:select
and:textarea
are valid options for the:type
filter onfind_field
andhas_field?
. [Yann Plancqueel]
- Fixed race conditions when synchronizing across multiple nodes [Jonas Nicklas]
- Fixed race conditions in deeply nested selectors [Jonas Nicklas]
- Fix issue with
within_frame
, where selecting multiple nested frames didn't work as intended. [Thomas Walpole] - RackTest no longer fills in readonly textareas. [Thomas Walpole]
- Don't use autoload to load files, require them directly instead. [Jonas Nicklas]
- Rescue weird exceptions when booting server [John Wilger]
- Non strings are now properly cast when using the maxlength attribute [Jonas Nicklas]
Release date: 2013-03-26
- Check against Rails version fixed to work with Rails' master branch now returning a Gem::Version [Jonas Nicklas]
- Use posix character class for whitespace replace, solves various encoding problems on Ruby 2.0.0 and JRuby. [Ben Cates]
Release date: 2012-12-31
- Capybara no longer uses thin as a server if it is available, due to thread safety issues. Now Capybara always defaults to WEBrick. [Jonas Nicklas]
- Suppress several warnings [Kouhei Sutou]
- Fix default host becoming nil [Brian Cardarella]
- Fix regression in 2.0.1 which caused node comparisons with non node objects to throw an exception [Kouhei Sotou]
- A few changes to the specs, only relevant to driver authors [Jonas Nicklas]
- Encoding error under JRuby [Piotr Krawiec]
- Ruby 2 encoding fix [Murahashi Sanemat Kenichi]
- Catch correct exception on server timeout [Jonathan del Strother]
Release date: 2012-12-21
- Move the RackTest driver override with the
:respect_data_method
option enabled from capybara/rspec to capybara/rails, so that it is enabled in Rails projects that don't use RSpec. [Carlos Antonio da Silva] source
is now an alias forhtml
. RackTest no longer returns modifications tohtml
. This basically codifies the behaviour which we've had for a while anyway, and should have minimal impact for end users. For driver authors, it means that they only have to implementhtml
, and notsource
. [Jonas Nicklas]
- Visiting relative URLs when
app_host
is set and no server is running works as expected. [Jonas Nicklas] fill_in
works properly under Selenium again when the caret is not at the end of the field before the method is called. [Douwe Maan, Jonas Nicklas, Jari Bakken]attach_file
can once again be given a Pathname [Jake Goulding]
Release date: 2012-11-05
- Dropped official support for Ruby 1.8.x. [Jonas Nicklas]
respect_data_method
default tofalse
for the RackTest driver in non-rails applications. That means that Capybara no longer picks updata-method="post"
et. al. from links by default when you haven't required capybara/rails [Jonas Nicklas]find
now raises an error if more than one element was found. Sincefind
is used by most actions, likeclick_link
under the surface, this means that all actions need to unambiguous in the future. [Jonas Nicklas]- All methods which find or manipulate fields or buttons now ignore them when they are disabled. [Jonas Nicklas]
- Can no longer find elements by id via
find(:foo)
, usefind("#foo")
orfind_by_id("foo")
instead. [Jonas Nicklas] Element#text
on RackTest now only returns visible text and normalizes (strips) whitespace, as with Selenium [Mark Dodwell, Jo Liss]has_content?
now checks the text value returned byElement#text
, as opposed to querying the DOM. Which means it does not match hidden text. [Ryan Montgomery, Mark Dodwell, Jo Liss]- #394:
#body
now returns the unmodified source (like#source
), not the current state of the DOM (like#html
), by popular request [Jonas Nicklas] Node#all
no longer returns an array, but rather an enumerableCapybara::Result
[Jonas Nicklas]- The arguments to
select
andunselect
needs to be the exact text of an option in a select box, substrings are no longer allowed [Jonas Nicklas] - The
options
option tohas_select?
must match the exact set of options. Usewith_options
for the old behaviour. [Gonzalo Rodriguez] - The
selected
option tohas_select?
must match all selected options for multiple selects. [Gonzalo Rodriguez] - Various internals for running driver specs, this should only affect driver authors [Jonas Nicklas]
- Rename
Driver#body
toDriver#html
(relevant only for driver authors) [Jo Liss]
- No longer possible to specify
failure_message
for custom selectors. [Jonas Nicklas] - #589:
Capybara.server_boot_timeout
has been removed in favor of a higher (60-second) hard-coded timeout [Jo Liss] Capybara.prefer_visible_elements
has been removed, as it is no longer needed with the changed find semantics [Jonas Nicklas]Node#wait_until
andSession#wait_until
have been removed. SeeNode#synchronize
for an alternative [Jonas Nicklas]Capybara.timeout
has been removed [Jonas Nicklas]- The
:resynchronize
option has been removed from the Selenium driver [Jonas Nicklas] - The
rows
option tohas_table?
has been removed without replacement. [Jonas Nicklas]
- Much improved error message [Jonas Nicklas]
- Errors from inside the session for apps running in a server are raised when session is reset [James Tucker, Jonas Nicklas]
- A ton of new selectors built in out of the box, like
field
,link
,button
, etc... [Adam McCrea, Jonas Nicklas] has_text?
has been added as an alias forhas_content?
[Jonas Nicklas]- Add
Capybara.server_host
option (default: 127.0.0.1) [David Balatero] - Add
:type
option forpage.has_field?
[Gonzalo Rodríguez] - Custom matchers can now be specified in CSS in addition to XPath [Jonas Nicklas]
Node#synchronize
method to rerun a block of code if certain errors are raised [Jonas Nicklas]Capybara.always_include_port
config option always includes the server port in URLs when usingvisit
. Facilitates testing different domain names`. [Douwe Maan]- Redirect limit for RackTest driver is configurable [Josh Lane]
- Server port can be manually specified during initialization of server. [Jonas Nicklas, John Wilger]
has_content?
andhas_text?
can be given a regular expression [Vasiliy Ermolovich]- Multiple files can be uploaded with
attach_file
[Jarl Friis]
- Nodes found via
all
are no longer reloaded. This fixes weird quirks where nodes would seemingly randomly replace themselves with other nodes [Jonas Nicklas] - Session is only reset if it has been modified, dramatically improves performance if only part of the test suite runs Capybara. [Jonas Nicklas]
- Test suite now passes on Ruby 1.8 [Jo Liss]
- #565:
require 'capybara/dsl'
is no longer necessary [Jo Liss] Rack::Test
now respects ports when changing hosts [Jo Liss]- #603:
Rack::Test
now preserves the original referer URL when following a redirect [Rob van Dijk] - Rack::Test now does not send a referer when calling
visit
multiple times [Jo Liss] - Exceptions during server boot now propagate to main thread [James Tucker]
- RSpec integration now cleans up before the test instead of after [Darwin]
- If
respect_data_method
is true, the data-method attribute can be capitalized [Marco Antonio] - Rack app boot timing out raises an error as opposed to just logging to STDOUT [Adrian Irving-Beer]
#source
returns an empty string instead of nil if no pages have been visited [Jonas Nicklas]- Ignore first leading newline in textareas in RackTest [Vitalii Khustochka]
within_frame
returns the value of the given block [Alistair Hutchison]- Running
Node.set
on text fields will not trigger more than one change event [Andrew Kasper] - Throw an error when an option is given to a finder method, like
all
orhas_selector?
which Capybara doesn't understand [Jonas Nicklas] - Two references to the node now register as equal when comparing them with
==
[Jonas Nicklas] has_text
(has_content
) now accepts non-string arguments, like numbers. [Jo Liss]has_text
andtext
now correctly normalize Unicode whitespace, such as
. [Jo Liss]- RackTest allows protocol relative URLs [Jonas Nicklas]
- Arguments are cast to string where necessary, so that e.g.
click_link(:foo)
works as expected. [Jonas Nicklas] :count => 0
now works as expected [Jarl Friis]- Fixed race conditions on negative assertions when removing nodes [Jonas Nicklas]
Release date: 2012-11-28
- Fix more race conditions on negative assertions. [Jonas Nicklas]
Release date: 2012-10-30
- RackTest driver ignores leading newline in textareas, this is consistent with the spec and how browsers behave. [Vitalii Khustochka]
- Nodes found via
all
andfirst
are never reloaded. This fixes issues where a node would sometimes magically turn into a completely different node. [Jonas Nicklas] - Fix race conditions on negative assertions. This fixes issues where removing an element and asserting on its non existence could cause StaleElementReferenceError and similar to be thrown. [Jonas Nicklas]
- Options are no longer lost when reloading elements. This fixes issues where
reloading an element would cause a non-matching element to be found, because
options to
find
were ignored. [Jonas Nicklas]
Release date: 2011-11-15
- #541: Make attach_file work with selenium-webdriver >=2.12 [Jonas Nicklas]
Release date: 2011-09-02
- Sensible inspect for Capybara::Session [Jo Liss]
- Fix headers and host on redirect [Matt Colyer, Jonas Nicklas, Kim Burgestrand]
- using_driver now restores the old driver instead of reverting to the default [Carol Nichols]
- Errors when following links relative to the root path under rack-test [Jonas Nicklas, Kim Burgestrand]
- Make sure exit codes are propagated properly [Edgar Beigarts]
- resynchronization is off by default under Selenium
- Elements are automatically reloaded (including parents) during wait [Jonas Nicklas]
- Rescue driver specific element errors, such as the dreaded ObsoleteElementError and retry [Jonas Nicklas]
- Raise an error if something has frozen time [Jonas Nicklas]
- Allow within to take a node instead of a selector [Peter Williams]
- Using wait_time_time to change wait time for a block of code [Jonas Nicklas, Kim Burgestrand]
- Option for rack-test driver to disable data-method hack [Jonas Nicklas, Kim Burgestrand]
Release date: 2011-08-12
- Dependend on selenium-webdriver ~>2.0 and fix deprecations [Thomas Walpole, Jo Liss]
- Depend on Launch 2.0 [Jeremy Hinegardner]
- Rack-Test ignores fill in on fields with maxlength=""
Release date: 2011-06-14
- Added DSL for acceptance tests, inspired by Luismi Cavallé's Steak [Luismi Cavalle and Jonas Nicklas]
- Selenium driver automatically waits for AJAX requests to finish [mgiambalvo, Nicklas Ramhöj and Jonas Nicklas]
- Support for switching between multiple named sessions [Tristan Dunn]
- failure_message can be specified for Selectors [Jonas Nicklas]
- RSpec matchers [David Chelimsky and Jonas Nicklas]
- Added save_page to save tempfile without opening in browser [Jeff Kreeftmeijer]
- Cucumber now switches automatically to a registered driver if the tag matches the name [Jonas Nicklas]
- Added Session#text [Jonas Nicklas and Scott Cytacki]
- Added Session#html as an alias for Session#body [Jo Liss]
- Added Session#current_host method [Jonas Nicklas]
- Buttons can now be clicked by title [Javier Martin]
- :headers option for RackTest driver to set custom HTTP headers [Jonas Nicklas]
- Culerity and Celerity drivers have been removed and split into separate gems [Gabriel Sobrinho]
include Capybara
has been deprecated in favour ofinclude Capybara::DSL
[Jonas Nicklas]
- Rack test driver class has been renamed from Capybara::Driver::RackTest to Capybara::RackTest::Driver [Jonas Nicklas]
- Selenium driver class has been renamed from Capybara::Driver::Selenium to Capybara::Selenium::Driver [Jonas Nicklas]
- Capybara now prefers visible elements over hidden elements, disable by setting Capybara.prefer_visible_elements = false [Jonas Nicklas and Nicklas Ramhöj]
- For RSpec, :type => :request is now supported (and preferred over :acceptance) [Jo Liss]
- Selenium driver tried to wait for AJAX requests to finish before proceeding [Jonas Nicklas and Nicklas Ramhöj]
- Session no longer uses method missing, uses explicit delegates instead [Jonas Nicklas]
- The Rack::Test driver now respects maxlength on text fields [Guilherme Carvalho]
- Allow for more than one save_and_open_page call per second [Jo Liss]
- Automatically convert options to :count, :minimum, :maximum, etc. to integers [Keith Marcum]
- Rack::Test driver honours maxlength on input fields [Guilherme Carvalho]
- Rack::Test now works as expected with domains and subdomains [Jonas Nicklas]
- Session is reset more thoroughly between tests. [Jonas Nicklas]
- Raise error when uploading non-existant file [Jonas Nicklas]
- Rack reponse body should respond to #each [Piotr Sarnacki]
- Deprecation warnings with selenium webdriver 0.2.0 [Aaron Gibraltar]
- Selenium Chrome no longer YELLS tagname [Carl Jackson & David W. Frank]
- Capybara no longer strips encoding before sending to Rack [Jonas Nicklas]
- Improve handling of relative URLs [John Barton]
- Readd and fix build_rack_mock_session [Jonas Nicklas, Jon Leighton]
Release date: 2011-01-21
- New click_on alias for click_link_or_button, shorter yet unambiguous. [Jonas Nicklas]
- Finders now accept :visible => false which will find all elements regardless of Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements [Jonas Nicklas]
- Configure how the server is started via Capybara.server { |app, port| ... }. [John Firebough]
- Added :between, :maximum and :minimum options to has_selector and friends [James B. Byrne]
- New Capybara.string util function which allows matchers on arbitrary strings, mostly for helper and view specs [David Chelimsky and Jonas Nicklas]
- Server boot timeout is now configurable, via Capybara.server_boot_timeout [Adam Cigánek]
- Built in support for RSpec [Jonas Nicklas]
- Capybara.using_driver to switch to a different driver temporarily [Jeff Kreeftmeijer]
- Added Session#first which is somewhat speedier than Session#all, use it internally for speed boost [John Firebaugh]
- Session#within now accepts the same arguments as other finders, like Session#all and Session#find [Jonas Nicklas]
- All deprecations from 0.4.0 have been removed. [Jonas Nicklas]
- Don't mangle URLs in save_and_open_page when using self-closing tags [Adam Spiers]
- Catch correct error when server boot times out [Jonas Nicklas]
- Celerity driver now properly passes through options, making it configurable [Jonas Nicklas]
- Better implementation of attributes in C[ue]lerity, should fix issues with attributes with strange names [Jonas Nicklas]
- Session#find no longer swallows errors [Jonas Nicklas]
- Fix problems with multiple file inputs [Philip Arndt]
- Submit multipart forms as multipart under rack-test even if they contain no files [Ryan Kinderman]
- Matchers like has_select? and has_checked_field? now work with dynamically changed values [John Firebaugh]
- Preserve order of rack params [Joel Chippindale]
- RackTest#reset! is more thorough [Joel Chippindale]
Release date: 2010-10-22
- The Selector API was changed slightly, use Capybara.add_selector, see README
- Celerity driver is registered properly
- has_selector? and has_no_selector? added to DSL
- Multiple selects return correct values under C[cu]lerity
- Naked query strings are handled correctly by rack-test
Release date: 2010-10-12
- within and find/locate now follow the XPath spec in that //foo finds all nodes in the document, instead of only for the context node. See this post for details: http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-capybara/browse_thread/thread/b129067979df21b3
- within now executes within the first found instance of the selector, not in all of them
- find now waits for AJAX requests and raises an exception when the element is not found (same as locate used to do)
- The default selector is now CSS, not XPath
- Session#click has been renamed click_link_or_button and the old click has been deprecated
- Node#node has been renamed native
- Node#locate is deprecated in favor of Node#find, which now behaves identically
- Session#drag is deprecated, please use Node#drag_to(other_node) instead
- Pretty much everything is properly documented now
- It's now possible to call all session methods on nodes, like
find('#foo').fill_in(...)
- Custom selectors can be added with Capybara::Selector.add
- The :id selector is added by default, use it lile
find(:id, 'foo')
orfind(:foo)
- Added Node#has_selector? so any kind of selector can be queried.
- Added Capybara.configure for less wordy configuration
- Added within_window to switch between different windows (currently Selenium only)
- Capybara.server_port to provide a fixed port if wanted (defaults to automatic selection)
- CSS selectors with multiple selectors, such as "h1, h2" now work correctly
- Port is automatically assigned instead of guessing
- Strip encodings in rack-test, no more warnings!
- RackTest no longer submits disabled fields
- Servers no longer output annoying debug information when started
- TCP port selection is left to Ruby to decide, no more port guessing
- Select boxes now return option value instead of text if present
- The default has been changed from localhost to 127.0.0.1, should fix some obscure selenium bugs
- RackTest now supports complex field names, such as foo[bar][][baz]
Release date: 2010-07-03
- status_code which returns the HTTP status code of the last response (no Selenium!)
- Capybara.save_and_open_page to store tempfiles
- RackTest and Culerity drivers now clean up after themselves properly
- When no rack app is set and the app is called, a more descriptive error is raised
- select now works with optgroups
- Don't submit image buttons unless they were clicked under rack-test
- Support custom field types under Selenium
- Support input fields without a type, treat them as though they were text fields
- Redirect now throws an error after 5 redirects, as per RFC
- Selenium now properly raises an error when Node#trigger is called
- Node#value now returns the correct value for textareas under rack-test
Release date: 2010-05-12
- Within_frame method to execute a block of code within a particular iframe (Selenium only!)
- Single quotes are properly escaped with
select
under rack-test and Selenium. - The :text option for searches now escapes regexp special characters when a string is given.
- Selenium now correctly checks already checked checkboxes (same with uncheck)
- Timing issue which caused Selenium to hang under certain circumstances.
- Selenium now resolves attributes even if they are given as a Symbol
Release date: 2010-04-09
This is a drop in compatible maintainance release. It's mostly important for driver authors.
- RackTest scans for data-method which rails3 uses to change the request method
- Don't hang when starting server on Windoze
- The driver and session specs are now located inside lib! Driver authors can simply require them.
Release date: 2010-03-22
This is a maintainance release with minor bug fixes, should be drop in compatible.
- It's now possible to load in external drivers
- has_content? ignores whitespace
- Trigger events when choosing radios and checking checkboxes under Selenium
- Make Capybara.app totally optional when running without server
- Changed fallback host so it matches the one set up by Rails' integration tests
Release date: 2010-02-26
This is a mostly backwards compatible release, it does break the API in some minor places, which should hopefully not affect too many users, please read the release notes carefully!
- Relative searching in a node (e.g. find('//p').all('//a')) will now follow XPath standard this means that if you want to find descendant nodes only, you'll need to prefix a dot!
visit
now accepts fully qualified URLs for drivers that support it.- Capybara will always try to run a rack server, unless you set Capybara.run_sever = false
- thin is preferred over mongrel and webrick, since it is Ruby 1.9 compatible
- click_button and click will find , clicking them does nothing in RackTest
- Much improved error messages in a multitude of places
- More semantic page querying with has_link?, has_button?, etc...
- Option to ignore hidden elements when querying and interacting with the page
- Support for multiple selects
- find_by_id is no longer broken
- clicking links where the image's alt attribute contains the text is now possible
- within_fieldset and within_table work when the default selector is CSS
- boolean attributes work the same across drivers (return true/false)