Broken controller tests after installing Capybara?

Question

I had a bunch of combined controller/view tests written with rspec. I added the Capybara gem and wrote some integrations tests which pass fine. The only problem is that now in a

Answer 1

You were probably using Webrat earlier, and has_selector? is a Webrat matcher. Capybaras doesn't have a has_selector matcher, it has a matcher called has_css. You may want to replace the "has_selector" with "has_css".

Answer 2

Capybara helpers only works within requests specs. Either create a new request spec, or pass in :type => :request in the describe block part, like so:

describe "test for the testing test", :type => :request do
  it "should work with capybara" do
    visit root_path
    click_link "Home"
    page.should WHATEVA
  end
end

I realize this question was asked a long time ago, but I thought I would share anyway. GLHF