Cucumber steps for selecting time and date (using Capybara)

capybara_select_dates_and_times.rb

require "xpath" # XPath is a separate gem now

module Cucumber
  module Rails
    module CapybaraSelectDatesAndTimes
      def select_date(field, options = {})
        date     = Date.parse(options[:with])
        selector = %Q{.//fieldset[contains(./legend, "#{field}")]}
        within(:xpath, selector) do
          find(:xpath, '//select[contains(@id, "_1i")]').find(:xpath, ::XPath::HTML.option(date.year.to_s)).select_option
          find(:xpath, '//select[contains(@id, "_2i")]').find(:xpath, ::XPath::HTML.option(date.strftime('%B').to_s)).select_option
          find(:xpath, '//select[contains(@id, "_3i")]').find(:xpath, ::XPath::HTML.option(date.day.to_s)).select_option
        end
      end

      def select_time(field, options = {})
        time     = Time.parse(options[:with])
        selector = %Q{.//fieldset[contains(./legend, "#{field}")]}
        within(:xpath, selector) do
          find(:xpath, '//select[contains(@id, "_4i")]').find(:xpath, ::XPath::HTML.option(time.hour.to_s.rjust(2,'0'))).select_option
          find(:xpath, '//select[contains(@id, "_5i")]').find(:xpath, ::XPath::HTML.option(time.min.to_s.rjust(2,'0'))).select_option
        end
      end

      def select_datetime(field, options = {})
        select_date(field, options)
        select_time(field, options)
      end
    end
  end
end

World(Cucumber::Rails::CapybaraSelectDatesAndTimes)

When /^(?:|I )select "([^\"]*)" as the "([^\"]*)" time$/ do |time, selector|
  select_time(selector, :with => time)
end

When /^(?:|I )select "([^\"]*)" as the "([^\"]*)" date$/ do |date, selector|
  select_date(selector, :with => date)
end

When /^(?:|I )select "([^\"]*)" as the "([^\"]*)" date and time$/ do |datetime, selector|
  select_datetime(selector, :with => datetime)
end

Nice idea! Thx for sharing!

I made an update, took me a while to figure out that //select was going back to root, so wasn't actually within the "field".

https://gist.github.com/1990208

The basic difference is something like this for each line with //select

-          find(:xpath, '//select[contains(@id, "_2i")]').find(:xpath, ::XPath::HTML.option(date.strftime('%B').to_s)).select_option
+          find(:xpath, './/select[contains(@id, "_2i")]').find(:xpath, ::XPath::HTML.option(date.strftime('%B').to_s)).select_option

Thank you amiel, you saved me hours of debuggin (already lost one D= )

mad props - I saw this in Cucumber-Rails - very yay!