A solution for the “I Follow” bug with cucumber and Capybara

Posted on Nov 23, 2010

While working on a new application and writing tests I encountered a problem:

This is the test I have been using:

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Scenario: Deleting a project from the main page

Given I am on the account home page

When I follow “Delete Project”

Then I should see “Your project has been deleted”

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The error that was shown is this:

[shell]

undefined local variable or method `node’ for #<Capybara::Driver::Node tag=“a” …

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Here’s a screen shot of the test run:

After browsing around for quite some time, I found that the error is originated with this line in env.rb file:

[ruby]

require ‘cucumber/rails/capybara_javascript_emulation’ # Lets you click links with onclick javascript handlers without using @culerity or @javascript

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Commenting out this line solved the problem for me and now I can continue with my testing. I hope it will solve your problem as well.