select: Capybara::Ambiguous: Ambiguous match, found 2 elements matching visible option

Question

I'm trying to select a country from a list. There are indeed 2 items with the same name.

select user_info.company_country, from: 'Company country'

HTML:

<select class="" name="user[company_country]" id="user_company_country">
<option value=""></option>
<option value="United States of America">United States of America</option>
<option value="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</option>
... 200+ countries
<option value="United States of America">United States of America</option>
<option value="Uruguay">Uruguay</option>

Error:

 Capybara::Ambiguous:
   Ambiguous match, found 2 elements matching visible option "United States of America" within #<Capybara::Node::Element tag="select" path="/html/body/div[3]/section/div/div/div/form/div/div[8]/select">

There doesn't appear to be any options to choose the first option.

https://www.rubydoc.info/github/teamcapybara/capybara/master/Capybara/Node/Actions#select-instance_method

Answer 1

As usual with Capybara there are multiple ways to do what you want. You should be able to do it by manually finding the option you want and then calling select_option on it

find('#user_company_country option[value="United States of America"]', match: :first).select_option

or

first(:option, 'United States of America').select_option

or possibly by passing the match: :first option to select (haven't actually tried that, but from the code it should work since the options are shared between the two finds select actually performs)

select user_info.company_country, from: 'Company country', match: :first