Capybara: How to check the page title?

Question

In a Rails 3 application using Steak, Capybara and RSpec, how to check the page title?

Answer 1

Since version 2.1.0 is capybara, there are methods for working with the header in the session. You

page.title page.has_title? "my title" page.has_no_title? "my not found title" 

So you can check the name, for example:

 expect(page).to have_title "my_title" 

According to github.com/jnicklas/capybara/issues/863 , also works with capybara 2.0 :

 expect(first('title').native.text).to eq "my title" 

Answer 2

This works under Rails 3.1.10, Capybara 2.0.2 and Rspec 2.12 and allows partial content to be mapped:

 find('title').native.text.should have_content("Status of your account::") 

Answer 3

You should be able to search for the title element to make sure that it contains the desired text:

 page.should have_xpath("//title", :text => "My Title") 

Answer 4

Testing the title of each page can be much easier with RSpec.

 require 'spec_helper' describe PagesController do render_views describe "GET 'home'" do before(:each) do get 'home' @base_title = "Ruby on Rails" end it "should have the correct title " do response.should have_selector("title", :content => @base_title + " | Home") end end end 

Answer 5

I added this to my spec helper:

 class Capybara::Session def must_have_title(title="") find('title').native.text.must_have_content(title) end end 

Then I can just use:

 it 'should have the right title' do page.must_have_title('Expected Title') end 

Answer 6

To check the page name with Rspec and Capybara 2.1, you can use

• expect(page).to have_title 'Title text'

  another option

• expect(page).to have_css 'title', text: 'Title text', visible: false
  Since Capybara 2.1 by default is Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements = true , but because the title element is invisible, you will need the visible: false option so that the search includes invisible page elements.

Answer 7

You just need to set subject to page , and then write the wait for the title method:

 subject{ page } its(:title){ should eq 'welcome to my website!' } 

In the context:

 require 'spec_helper' describe 'static welcome pages' do subject { page } describe 'visit /welcome' do before { visit '/welcome' } its(:title){ should eq 'welcome to my website!'} end end 

Answer 8

it { should have_selector "title", text: full_title("Your title here") }