rspec should have_select('cars', :options => ['volvo', 'saab'] not working [closed]

Question

In home page I have:
Cars:

<select id="cars">
  <option value="volvo">Volvo </option>
  <option value="saab">Saab</option>
  <option value="mercedes">Mercedes</option>
  <option value="audi">Audi </option>
</select>

The test code in static_pages_spec.rb:

it "should have the right select" do
  visit home_path
  it { should have_select('cars', :options => ['volvo', 'saab','mercedes','audi'])}
end

The response is

rspec ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:21 # Static pages Home page should have the right select

Answer 1

As you can see in this question most people trying to solve a similar problem would use #cars to locate their select, but the capybara docs for has_select? say it will (as usual) find the correct label, name or id. Looking at the examples there I would suggest you try to use the visible (capitalized) option names instead of the internal option values.

The third answer in the question I linked to has an example of verifying the internal values (with the exact same options you use which seems a very tough piece of a coincidence :-).

So you could try

it { should have_select('#cars', :options => ['Volvo', 'Saab', 'Mercedes', 'Audi'])}