rspec click a span

Question

I am using rspec to test some pages and would like to use the click method. However the DOM doesn't have the link or button. it's just a span and magically it becomes a link with javascript.

<span class="footerLink feedbackLink">
    Feedback
</span>

rspec offers "click_link" and "click_button"

any ideas how I could click a span?

Answer 1

You should be able to do

find('.feedbackLink').click

find returns an Element, and the Element class has a #click method.

Since you probably are handling the click in Javascript, don't forget to add :js => true as a metatag on your test.