How do you POST to a URL in Capybara?

Question

Just switched from Cucumber+Webrat to Cucumber+Capybara and I am wondering how you can POST content to a URL in Capybara.

In Cucumber+Webrat I was able to have a ste

Answer 1

As others have said, there’s no direct way of doing a POST with Capybara because it’s all about browser interaction. For API testing, I’d very highly recommend the rspec_api_documentation gem.

Answer 2

You could do this:

rack_test_session_wrapper = Capybara.current_session.driver
rack_test_session_wrapper.submit :post, your_path, nil

• You can replace :post which whatever method you care about e.g. :put or :delete.
• Replace your_path with the Rails path you want e.g. rack_test_session_wrapper.submit :delete, document_path(Document.last), nil would delete the last Document in my app.