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Question

Has anyone figured out how to raise a hoverIntent event via Capybara?

In the main window of the Rails application, the edit buttons are displayed in a table cell when the user hovers over this cell.

I recently added a jQuery hoverIntent plugin to delay the appearance of these buttons so that the user interface does not look like a busy switch when the user quickly moves the mouse around the page.

The addition of hoverIntent unfortunately led to several tests of the Cucumber-Capybara-Selenium. Tests made buttons with this step (simplified):

And /^I hover on the table cell with ID "(.*)"$/ do |cell_id| selector = "td#" + cell_id js = %Q{ (function() { jQuery("#{ selector }").mouseover(); })() } page.evaluate_script js end 

This works well for a regular mouseover event, but it does not call hoverIntent.

One solution (like a hacker one) would be to create named functions to go to hoverIntent for mouse and mouse behavior (instead of the anonymous built-in functions that I'm doing now). The Capybara step can then call the mouse function by name and get the same result.

It will be a step-by-step test of the functionality of hoverIntent, however, this is not optimal.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Answer 1

To register hoverIntent, I believe that the browser needs to sleep for the duration of the delay in your stay.