How to select a date in a Rails date_field form helper using Capybara

Question

I have a reservation search form that contains the following date_field helper:

<%= date_field(:reservation, :arrival_date) %>

How do I select a specific date for this date_field tag using Capybara?

I tried select "2014-01-01", from: "reservation_arrival_date" in my spec but I get a Capybara::ElementNotFound: error when running the spec.

Thanks in advance!

@user880828 Yes I did and I tried the answers, the date_field tag doesn't involve i1, i2, and i3 segments. — Adler Santos, Feb 18 '14 at 17:39

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '15 at 13:45

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As stated in documentation, date_field will not yield a <select> tag but an <input type='date'> this is why you cannot use Capybara::Node::Actions#select.

Instead just treat it as a regular input field:

fill_in "reservation_arrival_date", with: "2014/01/01"

answered Jan 23 '15 at 13:45

mdemolin

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I had to write the date as "2014-01-01" for it to work. – frostblooded Aug 14 '19 at 07:06

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 24 '20 at 09:14

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In 2020:

fill_in :reservation_arrival_date, with: '2020-01-01'

answered Sep 24 '20 at 09:14

Matt Budz

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '14 at 17:43

Instead of finding a way to click and select a date in the date_field tag, I instead did the following:

page.find('#reservation_arrival_date').set("2014-01-01")

This works really well and I find this approach very simple. But I'm not sure how "awkward" this may seem for an integration test.

How to select a date in a Rails date_field form helper using Capybara

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