[rspec-users] nokogiri selector help

[Zach Dennis]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Jonathan Linowes
<jonathan at parkerhill.com> wrote:
> hiya,
>
> i want the selector that would return a <tr> of a table if any td contains
> some text, so i can use it in click_link_within
>
> e.g. When I click the "show" link within the row containing
> "user at example.com"
>
>
> When /^I click the "(.+)" link within the row containing "(.+)"$/ do |link,
> text|
>        selector = ??
>        click_link_within  selector, link
> end

You can use an XPath selector to find the parent. Try:

selector = "//table//tr//td[contains(.,'user at example.com')]//.."

>
>
> -----------
> and lets say the response contains
>
> ...
> <div class="table-container">
>  <table>
>    <tbody>
>      <tr>...</tr>
>      <tr>
>        <td><a href="/posts/14">show</a></td>
>        <td>foo</td>
>        <td>bar</td>
>        <td>user at example.com</td>
>        <td>baz</td>
>      </tr>
>      <tr>...</tr>
>    </tbody>
>  </table>
> </div>
> ...
>

-- 
Zach Dennis
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