Cucumber and Capybara, clicking a non-link or button element

capybara, cucumber, integration-testing, selenium, webdriver

Solution

You can click on an element via `Capybara::Element.click`. I add the following for this in my `web_steps.rb` to click on divs.

When /^(?:|I )click within "([^"]*)"$/ do |selector|
  find(selector).click
end

There is also `Element.trigger('mouseover')` which appears to enable hover albeit not working with Selenium.

It is also very likely you will need to decorate your feature/scenario with Capybara's provided `@javascript` tag.

Problem

I am trying to test an inplace editor using Cucumber/Capybara/Selenium stack, but my problem is that the editor is activated by clicking a div and not a link or button. I can not seem to figure out how to get Capybara to do this. Is there a way of doing this?

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