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Version 2.2.1

Release date: 2014-01-06

Fixed

• Reverted a change in 2.2.0 which navigates to an empty file on reset. Capybara, now visits about:blank like it did before. [Jonas Nicklas]

Version 2.2.0

Release date: 2013-11-21

Added

• Add go_back and go_forward methods. [Vasiliy Ermolovich]
• Support RSpec 3 [Thomas Holmes]
• has_button?, has_checked_field? and has_unchecked_field? accept options, like other matchers. [Carol Nichols]
• The assert_selector and has_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 the sample 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

• 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 and within_frame inside within 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]

Version 2.1.0

Release date: 2013-04-09

Changed

• 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 to true. [Jonas Nicklas]
• In case of multiple matches smart matching is used by default. Set Capybara.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. Set Capybara.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]

Added

• All actions (click_link, fill_in, etc...) and finders now take an options hash, which is passed through to find. [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 a base tag into the page on save_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 on Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements. Capybara.visible_text_only option is available for compatibility. [Jonas Nicklas]
• has_content? and has_text? now take the same count options as has_selector? [Andrey Botalov]
• current_scope is now public API, returns the current element when within 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 on find_field and has_field?. [Yann Plancqueel]

Fixed

• 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]

Version 2.0.3

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]

Version 2.0.2

Release date: 2012-12-31

Changed

• 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]

Fixed

• 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]

Version 2.0.1

Release date: 2012-12-21

Changed

• 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 for html. RackTest no longer returns modifications to html. 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 implement html, and not source. [Jonas Nicklas]

Fixed

• 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]

Version 2.0.0

Release date: 2012-11-05

Changed

• Dropped official support for Ruby 1.8.x. [Jonas Nicklas]
• respect_data_method default to false for the RackTest driver in non-rails applications. That means that Capybara no longer picks up data-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. Since find is used by most actions, like click_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), use find("#foo") or find_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 by Element#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 enumerable Capybara::Result [Jonas Nicklas]
• The arguments to select and unselect needs to be the exact text of an option in a select box, substrings are no longer allowed [Jonas Nicklas]
• The options option to has_select? must match the exact set of options. Use with_options for the old behaviour. [Gonzalo Rodriguez]
• The selected option to has_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 to Driver#html (relevant only for driver authors) [Jo Liss]

Removed

• 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 and Session#wait_until have been removed. See Node#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 to has_table? has been removed without replacement. [Jonas Nicklas]

Added

• 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 for has_content? [Jonas Nicklas]
• Add Capybara.server_host option (default: 127.0.0.1) [David Balatero]
• Add :type option for page.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 using visit. 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? and has_text? can be given a regular expression [Vasiliy Ermolovich]
• Multiple files can be uploaded with attach_file [Jarl Friis]

Fixed

• 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 or has_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 and text 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]

Version 1.1.4

Release date: 2012-11-28

Fixed

• Fix more race conditions on negative assertions. [Jonas Nicklas]

Version 1.1.3

Release date: 2012-10-30

Fixed:

• RackTest driver ignores leading newline in textareas, this is consistent with the spec and how browsers behave. [Vitalii Khustochka]
• Nodes found via all and first 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]

Version 1.1.2

Release date: 2011-11-15

Fixed

• #541: Make attach_file work with selenium-webdriver >=2.12 [Jonas Nicklas]

Version 1.1.0

Release date: 2011-09-02

Fixed

• 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]

Changed

• resynchronization is off by default under Selenium

Added

• 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]

Version 1.0.1

Release date: 2011-08-12

Fixed

• 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=""

Version 1.0.0

Release date: 2011-06-14

Added

• 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]

Removed

• Culerity and Celerity drivers have been removed and split into separate gems [Gabriel Sobrinho]

Deprecated

• include Capybara has been deprecated in favour of include Capybara::DSL [Jonas Nicklas]

Changed

• 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]

Fixed

• 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]

Version 0.4.1

Release date: 2011-01-21

Added

• 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]

Changed

• Session#within now accepts the same arguments as other finders, like Session#all and Session#find [Jonas Nicklas]

Removed

• All deprecations from 0.4.0 have been removed. [Jonas Nicklas]

Fixed

• 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]

Version 0.4.0

Release date: 2010-10-22

Changed

• The Selector API was changed slightly, use Capybara.add_selector, see README

Fixed

• 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

Version 0.4.0.rc

Release date: 2010-10-12

Changed

• 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

Deprecated

• 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

Added

• 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') or find(: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)

Fixed

• 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]

Version 0.3.9

Release date: 2010-07-03

Added

• 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

Fixed

• 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

Version 0.3.8

Release date: 2010-05-12

Added

• Within_frame method to execute a block of code within a particular iframe (Selenium only!)

Fixed

• 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

Version 0.3.7

Release date: 2010-04-09

This is a drop in compatible maintainance release. It's mostly important for driver authors.

Added

• RackTest scans for data-method which rails3 uses to change the request method

Fixed

• Don't hang when starting server on Windoze

Changed

• The driver and session specs are now located inside lib! Driver authors can simply require them.

Version 0.3.6

Release date: 2010-03-22

This is a maintainance release with minor bug fixes, should be drop in compatible.

Added

• It's now possible to load in external drivers

Fixed

• 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

Version 0.3.5

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!

Breaking

• 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

Changed

• 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

Added

• 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

Fixed

• 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)