Get select value of dropdown for capybara testing

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I have to write tests for a web site. I am trying to get the selected value of a dropdown box. So far i can get the contents of the dropdown by doing

find_field('restrictions__rating_movies').text

returns - Don't Allow Movies G PG M R13 R15 R16 R18 R RP16 Allow All Movies

I can get the value of the selected object.

find_field('restrictions__rating_movies').value

returns - 1000

This does not help me much though because i am trying to get the text of the selected item from a drop down box.

<select class="" id="restrictions__rating_movies" name="restrictions[][rating_movies]">            
<option value="0">Don't Allow Movies</option>
<option value="100">G</option>
<option value="200">PG</option>
<option value="300">M</option>
<option value="325">R13</option>
<option value="350">R15</option>
<option value="375">R16</option>
<option value="400">R18</option>
<option value="500">R</option>
<option value="600">RP16</option>
<option value="1000" selected="selected">Allow All Movies</option></select>

in this case shown i need to get the value 'Allow All Movies' I have tried many different combinations of the above two examples.

capybara rspec ruby-on-rails
7 Answers

If you want to find the current selected text, without assuming what it might be so that you can just compare it to an expectation, the following works even if the selection was made by JS (so that there is no 'option[selected]').

First I find the value of the select, then I find the text of the option with that value:

  def selected(selector)
    value = find(selector).value
    text = find(selector).find("option[value='#{value}']").text
  end
user_58747440

Create a simple function to return the text given a select element (dropdown):

def get_dropdown_selected_item_text(dropdown)
  value = dropdown.value
  return dropdown.all(:css, "option").select {|opt| opt.value == value} .first.text
end
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