How can I test JQuery UI Sortable with Cucumber

Question

I'm tryting to write a cucumber/capybara test to reorder some items and then save them back. Any thoughts on how to best do this?

Answer 1

I have developed a JQuery plugin to solve this problem, check out jquery.simulate.drag-sortable.js which includes a plugin along with a suite of tests and examples.

Hope you find this useful! Feedback is welcome.

Matt

Answer 2

the drag_to method did not work for me. But I was able to cause the first element in my list to be dragged to the last position by including the following in my capybara selenium test using jquery.simulate.js :

page.execute_script %Q{
  $.getScript("/javascripts/jquery.simulate.js", function(){ 
    distance_between_elements = $('.task:nth-child(2)').offset().top - $('.task:nth-child(1)').offset().top;
    height_of_elements = $('.task:nth-child(1)').height();
    dy = (distance_between_elements * ( $('.task').size() - 1 )) + height_of_elements/2;

    first = $('.task:first');
    first.simulate('drag', {dx:0, dy:dy});
  });
}