How to count list items in an unordered list? (RSpec / Capybara)

Question

On my site, I have this list:

<ul class="test">
  <li class="social_1"></li>
  <li class="social_2"></li>
  <li class="social_3"></li>
  <li class="social_3"></li>
</ul>

My question is: how can I read li in the ul class I tried this:

my_ul = page.find("ul[class='test']")
my_ul.each do |li|
  pp li['class']
end

but that will not work.

Is there a way to do something like I encoded above?

Answer 1

Assuming the parent element is ul with id = parent .. you can do it like this

  list = Array.new 
  list = find('#parent ul').all('li')

now you can get the list size just

list.size 

and you can benefit from the fact that all li in the array will also collect text in every li element, for example

  list = find('#parent ul').all('li').collect(&:text)

Answer 2

RSpec 3 Capybara:

it "should have 4 li elements" do
   expect(find('ul.text')).to have_selector('li', count: 4)
end

: https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara#querying

Answer 3

Use page.all("ul.test li").size