Iterating through items in Capybara

Question

I\'ve got a page containing multiple elements of class .block. In Capybara, I want to be able to loop through and refer to each of the elements with this class before completing

Answer 1

You want to use the all method (see http://rubydoc.info/github/jnicklas/capybara/Capybara/Node/Finders#all-instance_method).

An example of outputting the text of each element (ie iterating) with class 'block' would be:

page.all(:css, '.block').each do |el|
    puts el.text
end

page.all returns an array of matching elements. So if you just want the second matching element, you can do:

page.all(:css, '.block')[1]  #Note that it is 0-based index