When working with Capybara and Rspec in my features spec, after calling "visit", page.body returns: "<html><head></head><body></body></html>" This, of course, causes all my "find"s to fail, as there is nothing there. save_and_open_page care of launchy shows me the complete, accurate page, chock full of HTML tags.
Any thoughts on why Capybara is not setting the page element correctly?
turns out this was due to a conflict between webrat and capybara. Diving into the source for where "visit" and "page" are referenced, I discovered that visit is declared in both Webrat and Capybara; however, the effect of "visit" in each differs. Capybara sets the page variable, while webrat sets a response variable. I don't yet know enough about how to use both of them, as they seem to both be useful for different purposes - if anyone wants to leave some comments with some resources I certainly would appreciate it!
I was getting this too. When I puts out the markup from the visit call, I found that the page was actually throwing a 404, but I wasn't getting a Capybara 404 error.
If you run something like the following, it will print out the markup so you can debug more easily:
When /^I view the front page$/ do
@visit = get "#{host}/frontpage"
puts @visit
end
Hope that helps someone.
