Capybara/Cucumber and waiting for Javascripty stuff to happen

August 20, 2010 Mike Gehard

A little ditty that makes it really easy to wait for something Javascripty to happen…like a Javascript dialog to appear that gets populated from an AJAX call.

The has_css? method call will wait until the element shows up and if it doesn’t show up before the Capybara timeout expires then it will return false.

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