capybara tricks

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Frequently one might want to make an assertion inside a within block, but it's not obvious how to do so.

This doesn't work (within doesn't have block attributes):

within(level_selector) do |this|
  click_button 'edit'
  expect(this).to have_content(header_text) # sadly this = nil
end

current_scope will work though and looks at only the content in the within

within(level_selector) do
  click_button 'edit'
  expect(current_scope).to have_content(header_text)
end

Actually, expect(page) will work as well. This is handy when you call a step from within another step.