How can I determine if a radio button is checked already?

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I'm using webrat with cucumber and I would like to test if a radio button is checked already when I am on a page. How can I do that ? I didn't find any step in webrat which can do that.

score 20 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 11 '19 at 20:17

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expect(find_field("radio_button_name")).to be_checked

edited Oct 11 '19 at 20:17

Jason Swett

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answered Feb 22 '14 at 01:37

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score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 14 '09 at 01:19

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input("#my_box").should be_checked

answered Aug 14 '09 at 01:19

Aslak Hellesøy

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Seems this method no longer works. I'm using Capybara 2.4.1. The `find_field` method suggested by @evedovelli did the trick. – Lachlan Cotter Dec 10 '14 at 07:41
I would suggest not using "should be_checked" but instead: expect(find_field("my_boxt")).to be_checked – Mar 03 '15 at 19:04

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 16 '09 at 13:54

There are cases when you cannot rely on checkboxes having ids or labels or where label text changes. In this case you can use the have_selector method from webrat.

From my working code (where I do not have ids on checkboxes).

response_body.should have_selector 'input[type=radio][checked=checked][value=information]'

Explanation: test will return true if body of document contains an radio button (input[type=radio]) which is checked and that has the value "information"

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 10 '11 at 11:04

Just changed a web_step checkbox to radio button

Add the following step to web_steps.rb

Then /^the "([^"]*)" radio_button(?: within "([^"]*)")? should be checked$/ do |label, selector|
  with_scope(selector) do
    field_checked = find_field(label)['checked']
    if field_checked.respond_to? :should
      field_checked.should be_true
    else
      assert field_checked
    end
  end
end

And you can write the following to check whether the given raido button is checked or not

And the "Bacon" radio_button within "div.radio_container" should be checked

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 27 '10 at 21:28

You can use the built-in checkbox matcher in web_steps.rb:

And the "Bacon" checkbox should be checked

However, you'll need to have a label on your checkbox that matches the ID of the corresponding checkbox input field. The f.label helper in Rails takes a string to use as the ID in the first argument. You may have to build a string that includes the field name and the checkbox name:

f.label "lunch_#{food_name}, food_name
f.radio_button :lunch, food_name

In any case, use this directive to see that you've got the HTML correct:

Then show me the page

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 04 '11 at 13:01

Wrapped Jesper Rønn-Jensen his function + added name which is used by rails:

Then /^I should see that "([^"]*)" is checked from "([^"]*)"$/ do |value, name|
  page.should have_selector "input[type='radio'][checked='checked'][value='#{value}'][name='#{name}']"
end

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 13 '10 at 20:21

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    And the "Obvious choice" checkbox should be checked

Although it might be a radio button, but the code will work. It is just checking for a fields labelled with that text.

answered Apr 13 '10 at 20:21

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 12 '18 at 11:39

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You can use method checked? on your field

expect(find_field("radio_button_id").checked?).to eq(true)

answered Jul 12 '18 at 11:39

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How can I determine if a radio button is checked already?

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