webrat – Tarik Billa

HTTP basic auth for Capybara

September 27, 2023 by Tarik

I got it to work using page.driver.basic_authorize(name, password) instead Update: At the moment, after a Capybara upgrade, I’m using this pile of workarounds: if page.driver.respond_to?(:basic_auth) page.driver.basic_auth(name, password) elsif page.driver.respond_to?(:basic_authorize) page.driver.basic_authorize(name, password) elsif page.driver.respond_to?(:browser) && page.driver.browser.respond_to?(:basic_authorize) page.driver.browser.basic_authorize(name, password) else raise “I don’t know how to log in!” end

How do you POST to a URL in Capybara?

August 29, 2023 by Tarik

More recently I found this great blog post. Which is great for the cases like Tony and where you really want to post something in your cuke: For my case this became: def send_log(file, project) proj = Project.find(:first, :conditions => “name=”#{project}””) f = File.new(File.join(::Rails.root.to_s, file)) page.driver.post(“projects/” + proj.id.to_s + “/log?upload_path=” + f.to_path) page.driver.status_code.should eql 200 … Read more

How can I see what capybara found in a failing cucumber step?

May 30, 2023 by Tarik

Then show me the page calls webrat/capybara’s underlying save_and_open_page method. Found that useful when working with steak.