How to tell cucumber go to some page?

Question

I'm learning to test with cucumber + capybara.

In one video tutorial I found that something like this should work:

...
When I go to the homepage
Then /do stuff/

I'm trying to do that but cucumber treats the word "homepage" as a part of regex.

So it gives me the suggestion to create a statement like so

When /^I go to homepage$/ do
   #tasks
end

Tried "index page", "items page" (name of existing controller), "root path" - same thing. Cucumber doesn't actually go there - just asks to create a handler.

Where do I go from here?

Answer 1

Using a gem such as Capybara you could do something like so

In you test:

When I go to the homepage

In your step:

When /^I go to the homepage$/ do
 visit root_path
end

Or to generalize:

When /^I go to the "(.*)"/ do |place|
 visit "/#{place}"
end

where your step would pass in the location (url) where you would want to go.

For more info on visit method checkout here