Unable to find field (Capybara::ElementNotFound) on rails

Question

I'm starting with cucumber and i'm trying to make a test that create a new movie in my rails. So in my teste1.feature

Feature: É possivel acessar a pagina de Novo Filme



Scenario: É possivel visitar paginas
  Given I visit "/articles"
  And I press the "Novo Filme" button
  Then I should see the "/articles/new" page



Scenario: Add a movie

  Given I visit "/articles"
  And I press the "Novo Filme" button
  Then I should see the "/articles/new" page
  Given I am on a new movies page
  When I fill in "article_title" with "Sta Uors"
  And I fill in "f.number_field" with "10.5"
  And I press "Salvar Novo Filme"
  Then I should see "/articles"
  Then I should see the "Sta Uors" at "tabelafilme"

and in my teste1.step i have

#Given(/^I visit "([^"]*)"$/) do 


# visit article_path # Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions
#end
Given (/^I visit "(.*)"/) do |place|
 visit place
end

And(/^I press the "([^"]*)" button$/) do |arg|
  click_on( arg ) # Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions
end


Then(/^I should see the "([^"]*)" page$/) do |place|
  visit "/articles/new"
end




Given (/^I am on a new movies page/) do
    visit "/articles/new"
end

When (/^I fill in "(.*)" with "(.*)"/) do |field , content|
 fill_in (field), :with => (content), visible: false
end

And(/^I press "([^\"]*)"/) do |button|
    click_button(button)
end

Then (/^I should see "([^\"]*)"/) do |arg|
    page.find_by_id('notice').text == arg
end

Then (/^I should see the "([^\"]*)" at "([^\"]*)"/) do |film, table|
    expect(page).to have_css("#tebelafilme", :text => table)
    find('td', text: film)
end

but i'm still getting this error

When I fill in "article_Titulo" with "Sta Uors"   # features/step_definitions/teste1.rb:24
  Unable to find field "article_Titulo" (Capybara::ElementNotFound)
  ./features/step_definitions/teste1.rb:25:in `/^I fill in "(.*)" with "(.*)"/'
  features/teste1.feature:18:in `When I fill in "article_Titulo" with "Sta Uors"'

So, i go to the project runing and click on my article_title to inspect on html page what's the name to put on cucumber, and the id name is "article_text", the label is "article_Titulo", and cucumber cannot find the field. Can someone help me?

James James · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-27T18:18:47

First as far as the documentation for fill_in goes it looks like its expecting a string specifically for both of those arguments. You could try doing fill_in "#{field}", :with => "#{content}", visible: false to leave no doubt that you're feeding it strings.

However if you are creating the field with the text_field helper method, this answer should do it. Looks like the elements created with an underscore in the name have that underscore stripped by the time it gets to the DOM.

Unable to find field (Capybara::ElementNotFound) on rails

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