Cucumber Capybara find checkbox by other than id, name, or label

Question

I'm trying to check a checkbox in my cucumber test, but I cannot figure out how to tell it to search by anything other than the id, name, or label. I keep on getting this error:

cannot check field, no checkbox with id, name, or label 'xxxx' found

I have added an attribute of 'identifier' to each checkbox, with unique values, and would like to find the box by these terms.

Answer 1

Do you mean that you've added a new attribute named identifier to each checkbox? If so then you may be able to find them using a CSS locator:

find(:css, "[identifier='#{my_checkbox_identifier}']").set(true)

(set-ing the checkbox to true checks it, use false to uncheck it.)

Answer 2

Realizing this question is rather old, an answer may still be useful to someone, somewhere. I found the following to work:

find(:xpath, "//input[@identifier='my_checkbox_identifier']").set(true)