click on one Specific button using capybara in rails

Question

I am working with rails 3 and currently writing test with capybara using selenium driver, I have issue as below

In one form i have 3 button named "save and add another", "save and continue editing" and "Save" Now, if i try to save form by capybara as below

click_button 'Save'

Then this throws error called 'Save' button with id,title or value not found Now if i remove the above 2 buttons and then i try that then it works

FYI, My 3 button's html as below,

<input class="btn" type="submit" value="Save and add another" name="_addanother" data-disable-with="Save and add another">

<input class="btn" type="submit" value="Save and continue editing" name="_continue" data-disable-with="Save and continue editing">

<input class="btn" type="submit" value="Save" name="_save" data-disable-with="Save">

Please let me know if anyone has an idea.

Solution 1

I think the problem is that all the values return a match because they all contain 'Save'.

Try assigning each one a distinctive id and using that instead.

Solution 2

Matching With Exactness - from the GitHub docs. Using exactness would probably make less of an impact than altering your templates.

click_button('Save', exact: true)

This would only find the exact match and skip the 'Save blah' action.

Comments

[DanS]

I think the problem is that the last one only works when the other buttons are removed...

[chirag.sweng]

Thanks, but yes i know that 'Save' button should work if i write click_buttion 'Save', but currently it is not working and it throws error as i said in my qustion.. if i remove my above 2 buttons then only this click_button 'Save' works

[chirag.sweng]

No this is also not working.. and it throws error no button with value or id or text 'Save' found but anyway, i get the solution, i have added ids to those buttons and then it works fine, thanks for your answers and time

[IAmNaN]

To be clear, an id, text or value is expected. It will not match by name.

[Gino]

Prefer this answer to the accepted answer as it doesn't involve editing your markup.