testing with specs, capybara from railstutorial chapter 3 does not work (have_selector('title', :text => ' | Home'))

Question

im working on ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book. Im using rails 3.2.7, spork, rspec, capybara, launchy and some guards :)

i have a really weird problem

Answer 1

I just checked your project on Github, and it seems that you are using the edge version of capybara:

Gemfile

gem 'capybara', :git => 'git://github.com/jnicklas/capybara.git'

Gemfile.lock

GIT
  remote: git://github.com/jnicklas/capybara.git
  revision: e561d249555195cdd0e9251246fc75aae876f833
  specs:
      capybara (2.0.0.beta2)
      mime-types (>= 1.16)
      nokogiri (>= 1.3.3)
      rack (>= 1.0.0)
      rack-test (>= 0.5.4)
      selenium-webdriver (~> 2.0)
      xpath (~> 1.0.0.beta1)

If nothing else, I would dare say this is the cause of your problem. (And sure enough, my reference project is broken all over after updating capybara to use the edge version)

So, unless you are keen to help with the beta testing of Capybara 2, you would do well to stick to the 1.1.2 version as listed here.