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Update README adding explaination for using app_host to call remote web servers

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Joseph Wilk and Matt Wynne 2010-02-03 12:18:20 +00:00
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== The DSL
Capybara's DSL is inspired by Webrat. While backwards compatibility is retained
Capybara's DSL is inspired by Webrat. While backwards compatibility is retained
in a lot of cases, there are certain important differences.
Unlike in Webrat, all searches in Capybara are *case sensitive*. This is because
@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ certain elements, and working with and manipulating those elements.
page.has_xpath?('//table/tr')
page.has_css?('table tr.foo')
page.has_content?('foo')
You can use with RSpecs magic matchers:
page.should have_xpath('//table/tr')
@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ You can also find specific elements, in order to manipulate them:
find_field('First Name').value
find_link('Hello').visible?
find_button('Send').click
find('//table/tr').click
wait_for("//*[@id='overlay'").find("//h1").click
all('a').each { |a| a[:href] }
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end
click_link 'Sign in'
== Calling remote servers
Normally Capybara expects to be testing an in-process Rack application, but you can also use it to talk to a web server running anywhere on the internets, by setting app_host:
require 'capybara'
require 'capybara/dsl'
include Capybara
Capybara.current_driver = :selenium
Capybara.app_host = 'http://www.google.com'
visit('/')
== Using the sessions manually
For ultimate control, you can instantiate and use a session manually.
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to do:
within(:css, 'ul li') { ... }
find(:css, 'ul li').text
find(:css, 'ul li').text
locate(:css, 'input#name').value
Alternatively you can set the default selector to CSS, which may help if you are