How to fill tinymce-rails editor with capybara and selenium?

Question

I have trouble with using capybara to test tinymce form. I\'m using tinymce-rails and have 7 editors in my form. Also I\'m using asciimath plugin with tinymce.

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Answer 1

I know that this is an old question but I just found it while trying to solve this issue as well.

Although the original question said that he has 7 tinymce's on the same page I think that my solution might work for him too but I do know it will work if there is one tinymce as was my case.

In my request spec I used this:

page.execute_script('$(tinymce.editors[0].setContent("my content here"))')

The page.execute_script with tell it to run the jQuery function. It then finds the first tincymce editor and sets the content.

Worked like a charm for me. I think if there are more than one tinymce it can be called by its position.