Is it possible to test the order of elements via RSpec/Capybara

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I'm using RSpec/Capybara as my test suite. I have some javascript that dynamically appends <li> to the end of a <ul>. I want to write a request spec to ensure that this is happening.

I tried using the has_css Capybara method and advanced CSS selectors to test for the ordering of the <li> elements, but Capybara doesn't support the + CSS selector.

Example:

page.should have_css('li:contains("ITEM #1")')
pseuo_add_new_li
page.should have_css('li:contains("ITEM #1")+li:contains("ITEM #2")')

Does anyone know of another way to test for ordering?

Best Answer

I resolved this issue by testing for a regex match against the body content of the page. A bit kludgy, but it works.

page.body.should =~ /ITEM1.*ITEM2.*ITEM3/

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