How do I select an element from the grouped selection by its value?

Question

The problem I'm having (and I've tried all the solutions on the interwebs) is how to select an element from a grouped select with capybara.

Here's the dropdown:

<%= f.grouped_collection_select(:subcategory_id, Category.order(:name), :subcategories, :name, :id, :name, {}, { :class=> "form-control" }) %>

Here's one of the ways I've tried to select it.

select("Ortodoncista", from: 'provider[subcategory_id]')

The error

Unable to find option "Ortodoncista" (Capybara::ElementNotFound)

Answer 1

This answer worked for me Capybara: Select an option by value not text by @d_rail

You create a helper first. I put this helper in spec/support/utilities.rb

def select_by_value(id, value)
  option_xpath = "//*[@id='#{id}']/option[@value='#{value}']"
  option = find(:xpath, option_xpath).text
  select(option, :from => id)
end

Then to use it:

select_by_value "select_id", "select_option"

In my case, the select tag has the id user_category and the option I wanted to select was Musician. So my example was

select_by_value "user_category", "Musician"

Answer 2

As I am more familiar with CSS selection, I would use:

This to find option element by its value, that correspond to the result of the option_key_method (:id), on a child of your collection (Categories):

 page.find('select#your-selectbox-id option[value="your-value"]')

This will return the desired capybara element found by your-value instead of searching by the text of the option. Then you can do whatever you want. for example: .text, or .click.

Or (just to remember) like this, if you want to select a given option from your selecbox with capybara:

select 'Option Label', :from => 'Selectbox Label Text'

wich, in your case would be the result of the option_value_method (:name) on a child of your collection (Categories).

Obs: reference for grouped selection