Ruby on Rails: Cucumber: how do I follow a link that opens a new window?

Question

I have a link that opens in a new window, and I need to test the part of my app that is within that new window.

Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Define a step that contains this code:

page.driver.browser.switch_to.window (page.driver.browser.window_handles.last)

switch_to is a selenium command that allows you to change over to a new window window_handles returns a list of currently open windows

Answer 2

I realize this is a very old post, but here's a Cucumber step definition using Capybara and the Poltergeist driver:

And /^I follow "([^"]*)" to the new window$/ do |link|
  new_window = window_opened_by { click_link link }
  switch_to_window new_window
end