create a post request using poltergeist and capyba

问题:

I'm transitioning from Capybara backed by the default Rack driver to Capybara backed by Poltergeist.

For frustrating reasons, I need to manipulate session data before loading a page. But I couldn't figure out how to manipulate the session directly with the Rack driver, so I

Capybara.current_session.driver.submit :post, "/current_search", {:session => :data }

Unfortunately, the Poltergeist driver object has no submit method, as the Rack driver had.

There are three possibilities:

• How do I submit a POST request with poltergeist/phantomjs? (Implementing this seems the easiest)
• How can I manipulate session data directly with poltergeist/phantomjs?
• I can restructure the code so that manipulating session data directly is no longer necessary. This would be time-consuming and is low-priority.

PS: due to being on Ruby 1.8, we are stuck on Poltergeist v1.0.2

回答1:

The idea of capybara is to test user interaction, so you can do the POST request in the same way a user would do.

On your case it would be something like:

visit '/search'
fill_in '.search-box', :with => "search query"
click_on "Submit"

Is there any reason to not do it this way?