Automatically Wait for AJAX with Capybara

Automatically wait for AJAX with Capybara

Automatically Wait for AJAX with Capybara

Automatically wait for AJAX with Capybara Gabe Berke-Williams February 04, 2014 rails testing Capybara's very good about waiting for AJAX . For example, this code will keep checking the page for the element for Capybara.default_wait_time seconds, allowing AJAX calls to finish: expect(page).to have_css('.username', text: 'Gabe B-W') But there are times when that's not enough. For example, in this code: visit users_path click_link 'Add Gabe as friend via AJAX' reload_page expect(page).to have_css('.favorite', text: 'Gabe') We have a race condition between click_link and reload_page . Sometimes the AJAX call will go through before Capybara reloads the page, and sometimes it won't. This kind of nondeterministic test can be very difficult to debug, so I added a little helper. Capybara's Little Helper Here's the helper, via Coderwall : # spec/support/wait_for_ajax.rb module Wait...

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