Fill in the editor text box using capybara-webkit

Question

I am using the markup editor on my page, which I am trying to target and fill in using capybara-webkit, but with no luck.

My template is as follows

<%= simple_form_for form, url: url, method: :put do |f| %> <%= f.input :notes, as: :text %> <%= f.button :submit, class: 'fluid' %> <% end %> <!-- https://github.com/lepture/editor --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/editor/0.1.0/editor.css"> <script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/editor/0.1.0/editor.js"></script> <script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/editor/0.1.0/marked.js"></script> <script !src=""> (function () { var editor = new Editor(); editor.render(); })() </script> 

and the processed html (including the javascript executable editor) looks like this (using capybara-webkit debugging tools)

 <form novalidate="novalidate" class="simple_form simple_form ui form segment new_steps_update" id="new_steps_update" action="/presentations/1/who" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="✓"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="put"> <div class="field text optional steps_update_notes"><label class="text optional" for="steps_update_notes">Notes</label><textarea class="text optional" name="steps_update[notes]" id="steps_update_notes" style="display: none;"></textarea><div class="editor-toolbar"><a class="icon-bold"></a><a class="icon-italic"></a><i class="separator">|</i><a class="icon-quote"></a><a class="icon-unordered-list"></a><a class="icon-ordered-list"></a><i class="separator">|</i><a class="icon-link"></a><a class="icon-image"></a><i class="separator">|</i><a class="icon-info" href="http://lab.lepture.com/editor/markdown" target="_blank"></a><a class="icon-preview"></a><a class="icon-fullscreen"></a></div><div class="CodeMirror cm-s-paper"><div style="overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 3px; height: 0px; top: 4px; left: 4px;"><textarea style="position: absolute; padding: 0px; width: 1000px; height: 1em; outline: none; font-size: 4px;" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0"></textarea></div><div class="CodeMirror-hscrollbar" style="left: 0px;"><div style="height: 1px;"></div></div><div class="CodeMirror-vscrollbar" style=""><div style="width: 1px;"></div></div><div class="CodeMirror-scrollbar-filler" style=""></div><div class="CodeMirror-gutter-filler" style=""></div><div class="CodeMirror-scroll" tabindex="-1"><div class="CodeMirror-sizer" style="min-width: 41.4375px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><div style="position: relative; top: 0px;"><div class="CodeMirror-lines"><div style="position: relative; outline: none;"><div class="CodeMirror-measure"><pre><span>​</span></pre></div><div style="position: relative; z-index: 1; display: none;"></div><div class="CodeMirror-code" style=""><pre> </pre></div><div class="CodeMirror-cursor" style="left: 4px; top: 0px; height: 17px;"> </div><div class="CodeMirror-cursor CodeMirror-secondarycursor" style="display: none;"> </div></div></div></div></div><div style="position: absolute; height: 30px; width: 1px; top: 26px;"></div><div class="CodeMirror-gutters" style="display: none; height: 420px;"></div></div></div><div class="editor-statusbar"><span class="lines">0</span><span class="words">0</span><span class="cursor">0:0</span></div></div> <input type="submit" name="commit" value="Next" class="ui positive submit button fluid"> </form> <!-- https://github.com/lepture/editor --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/editor/0.1.0/editor.css"> <script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/editor/0.1.0/editor.js"></script> <script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/editor/0.1.0/marked.js"></script> <script !src=""> (function () { var editor = new Editor(); editor.render(); })() </script> 

It's a little hard to say, but I think that the original textarea (id: step_update_notes ) is replaced with another textarea inside a div with the CodeMirror class, so I tried to configure the tapik using capybara, but without any luck.

This is my test as it stands now

 require 'rails_helper' RSpec.feature 'Planning a presentation', type: :feature do context 'when logged in', js: true do let!(:user) { Fabricate(:user, password: 'password') } before(:each) do page.driver.allow_url('cdn.jsdelivr.net') login_user_js(user.email, 'password') end context 'new presentation' do scenario 'complete process' do visit presentations_path click_link 'Plan a new presentation' expect(page).to have_content('About your presentation') fill_in 'presentations_create_title', with: 'My presentation' click_button 'Next' expect(page).to have_content('Step one: Who') # this one is unable to find the textarea fill_in '.CodeMirror textarea', with: 'My step one who notes' # This one seems to complete, but upon submitting the page, the value hasn't set find('.CodeMirror textarea').set('My step one who notes') click_button 'Next' expect(page).to have_content('Step two: Action') skip end end end end 

Answer 1

So this is not the answer I was expecting, and I'm not sure if this is the best way to do this, but I have found something that works.

Some studies have shown that I can populate the contents of the Editor using javascript, in particular editor.codemirror.setValue(); . So I ensured that the editor variable is in a global scope inside the FTAPP object (which may or may not be a better idea), and then use the following Capybara code.

 require 'rails_helper' RSpec.feature 'Planning a presentation', type: :feature do context 'when logged in', js: true do let!(:user) { Fabricate(:user, password: 'password') } before(:each) do page.driver.allow_url('cdn.jsdelivr.net') login_user_js(user.email, 'password') end context 'new presentation' do scenario 'complete process' do visit presentations_path click_link 'Plan a new presentation' expect(page).to have_content('About your presentation') fill_in 'presentations_create_title', with: 'My presentation' click_button 'Next' expect(page).to have_content('Step one: Who') page.execute_script('FTAPP.editor.codemirror.setValue("My step one who notes");') click_button 'Next' expect(page).to have_content('Step two: Action') skip end end end end