getting the all the href links of the page using ruby capybara

Question

I'm having an issue getting the list of links of the pages and saving it as an array, so I can find out what links are used in the page

<ul class="test">   
 <li class="social_1"></li>
     <a href="link1"></a>   
 <li class="social_2"></li>
     <a href="link2"></a>   
 <li class="social_3"></li>
     <a href="link3"></a>   
 <li class="social_4"></li>
     <a href="link4"></a> 
</ul>

I tried using

list_items = page.all('li').collect(&:href)
puts list_items;

but it's not giving the correct answer.

im having this error

  undefined method `href' for #<Capybara::Element tag="li"> (NoMethodError)

Answer 1

There are two issues:

• The href attribute exist on the a element rather than the li element.
• Elements do not have an href method. To get the attribute value use the [] method.

Depending on your preference, any of the following would work:

page.all('li').map { |li| li.find('a')['href'] }

page.all('li a').map { |a| a['href'] }

page.all('a').map { |a| a['href'] }