Helpers for dealing with tables when integration testing with Capybara

step_helpers.rb

module StepHelpers
  def table_for(table_or_id)
    if table_or_id.is_a?(Capybara::Node::Element)
      table_or_id
    else
      find("##{table_or_id}")
    end
  end

  def row_containing_text(table_or_id, text)
    table_for(table_or_id).find(:xpath, "tbody//tr[(* | *//*)[contains(text(), '#{text}')]]")
  end

  def table_row_hash(table_or_id, text)
    table = table_for(table_or_id)
    row = row_containing_text(table, text)

    table.all('thead th').zip(row.all('th, td')).inject({}) do |memo, (header, cell)|
      memo.merge(header.text => cell.text)
    end
  end
end