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Wait for Javascript and AJAX changes in Capybara

· Miguel Parramón · blogger

Tags: capybara, Ruby on Rails, testing

Recently I was having trouble with JS-enabled tests with Capybara on a Ruby on Rails app, when clicking stuff around and then asserting about content that was not on the page yet. I tried several solutions I found online, but either they were talking about wait_until, which is a method that’s not available in Capybara anymore, or they just didn’t work for me. Therefore, I decided to roll my own:

def wait_for Timeout.timeout(Capybara.default_wait_time) do loop until begin yield rescue MiniTest::Assertion end end yield end

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