found the answer via some more searching; it appears this is a bug with webrat that hasn't been fixed yet; if i add "selenium.wait_for_page_to_load(5)" after the click_button command, things work fine.
i've opened up a new ticket in the webrat lighthouse acct. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Barun Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to use Cucumber with Selenium to test my app. I have a method > called "login_as" defined as follows: > > def login_as(user, password) > visit new_session_path > fill_in "username", :with => user.username > fill_in "password", :with => password > click_button('Go') > response.body.should =~ /Signed in as <a > href=\"[^\"]+\">#{user.username}<\/a>/ > end > > > This works fine when I'm not using Selenium, but it fails when I do use > Selenium. Weirder still is that if I use Selenium but put a "debugger" step > before the "click_button" step, and I execute the last two lines through the > console, everything works. When it fails, the error seems to indicate that > nothing on the page has changed -- that is, that "response" is still the old > response from before I executed the "click_button" step. My best guess is > that the code perhaps isn't waiting for the browser to actually load the new > page before looking at the response. Does anyone know how to fix this > issue? > > Thanks.. >
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