With Capybara, how do I switch to the new window for links with “_blank” targets?

Question

Perhaps this isn\'t actually the issue I\'m experiencing, but it seems that when I \"click_link\" a link with target=\"_blank\", the session keeps the focus on the current w

Answer 1

Now within_window implemented for capybara-webkit http://github.com/thoughtbot/capybara-webkit/pull/314 and here you can see how to use it http://github.com/mhoran/capybara-webkit-demo

Answer 2

I had this issue when opening links in an gmail window: I fixed it like this:

Given /^(?:|I )click the "([^"]*)" link in email message$/ do |field|

  # var alllinks = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
  # for (alllinksi=0; alllinksi<alllinks.length; alllinksi++) {
  #   alllinks[alllinksi].removeAttribute("target");
  # }

  page.execute_script('var alllinks = document.getElementsByTagName("a"); for (alllinksi=0; alllinksi<alllinks.length; alllinksi++) { alllinks[alllinksi].removeAttribute("target"); }')

  within(:css, "div.msg") do
    click_link link_text
  end

end

Answer 3

The best idea is to update capybara to the latests version (2.4.1) and just use windows.last because page.driver.browser.window_handles is deprecated.