Is it possible to interact with hidden elements with capybara?

Question

I have a file field that has opacity: 0 and is overlaping a fake button. Its a common css technic to fake a sort of \"Upload button\" that displays consistently acr

Answer 1

I ended up resolving it a different route.

execute_script() was giving me a hard time (it would freeze test execution on FireFox), so this is what I did:

I already had an appropriate javascript file. I appended the following

<% if ENV["RAILS_ENV"] == "test" %>
  $('#photos').show()
<% end %>

I also had to append .erb to my javascript file for proper Rails asset handling.

And in my test file, I was already setting ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"

This way I could just dumb down the UI for test, and yet maintain the look and feel for production.