Prefer exact matches over partial, links & buttons

This aligns links and buttons with the behaviour
of fields for more consistent behaviour

lib/capybara/xpath.rb

@@ -56,12 +56,15 @@ module Capybara
     end
 
     def link(locator)
-      append("//a[@id=#{s(locator)} or contains(.,#{s(locator)}) or @title=#{s(locator)}]")
+      xpath = append("//a[@id=#{s(locator)} or contains(.,#{s(locator)}) or contains(@title,#{s(locator)})]")
+      xpath.prepend("//a[text()=#{s(locator)} or @title=#{s(locator)}]")
     end
 
     def button(locator)
       xpath = append("//input[@type='submit' or @type='image'][@id=#{s(locator)} or contains(@value,#{s(locator)})]")
-      xpath.append("//button[@id=#{s(locator)} or contains(@value,#{s(locator)}) or contains(.,#{s(locator)})]")
+      xpath = xpath.append("//button[@id=#{s(locator)} or contains(@value,#{s(locator)}) or contains(.,#{s(locator)})]")
+      xpath = xpath.prepend("//input[@type='submit' or @type='image'][@value=#{s(locator)}]")
+      xpath = xpath.prepend("//button[@value=#{s(locator)} or text()=#{s(locator)}]")
     end
 
     def text_area(locator)

spec/dsl/click_button_spec.rb

@@ -115,6 +115,11 @@ module ClickButtonSpec
           @session.click_button('Click')
           extract_results(@session)['first_name'].should == 'John'
         end
+
+        it "should prefer exact matches over partial matches" do
+          @session.click_button('Just an input')
+          extract_results(@session)['button'].should == 'button_second'
+        end
       end
 
      context "with id given on a button defined by <button> tag" do
@@ -134,6 +139,11 @@ module ClickButtonSpec
           @session.click_button('ck_me')
           extract_results(@session)['first_name'].should == 'John'
         end
+        
+        it "should prefer exact matches over partial matches" do
+          @session.click_button('Just a button')
+          extract_results(@session)['button'].should == 'Just a button'
+        end
       end
 
       context "with a locator that doesn't exist" do

spec/dsl/click_link_spec.rb

@@ -17,6 +17,16 @@ module ClickLinkSpec
           @session.click_link('labore')
           @session.body.should include('Bar')
         end
+        
+        it "should accept partial matches" do
+          @session.click_link('abo')
+          @session.body.should include('Bar')
+        end
+
+        it "should prefer exact matches over partial matches" do
+          @session.click_link('A link')
+          @session.body.should include('Bar')
+        end
       end
 
       context "with title given" do
@@ -24,6 +34,16 @@ module ClickLinkSpec
           @session.click_link('awesome title')
           @session.body.should include('Bar')
         end
+
+        it "should accept partial matches" do
+          @session.click_link('some tit')
+          @session.body.should include('Bar')
+        end
+        
+        it "should prefer exact matches over partial matches" do
+          @session.click_link('a fine link')
+          @session.body.should include('Bar')
+        end
       end
 
       context "with a locator that doesn't exist" do

spec/views/form.erb

@@ -168,3 +168,12 @@
     <input type="color" name="form[html5_color]" value="#FFF" id="html5_color"/>
   </p>
 </form>
+
+<form action="/form" method="post">
+  <p>
+    <button type="submit" name="form[button]" value="button_first">Just an input that came first</button>
+    <button type="submit" name="form[button]" value="button_second">Just an input</button>
+    <input type="submit" name="form[button]" value="Just a button that came first"/>
+    <input type="submit" name="form[button]" value="Just a button"/>
+  </p>
+</form>

spec/views/with_html.erb

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 
 <p>
   <input type="text" id="test_field" value="monkey"/>
+  <a title="twas a fine link" href="/redirect">A link came first</a>
+  <a title="a fine link" href="/with_simple_html">A link</a>
 </p>
 
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