SitePrism is awesome and you should use it

I mentioned SitePrism yesterday and so I wanted to go in a little more depth. From my example yesterday, I used an inventory show page and an inventory index page. I had a find_inventory method on inventory index and a displayed? method on inventory show. I actually reconsidered the displayed? method and so I’m going to show how to use SitePrism to validate that the page has loaded in a different way.

Let’s look at the InventoriesIndex SitePrism page:

module Inventories
  class InventoriesIndex < SitePrism::Page
    set_url '/inventories'
    set_url_matcher %r{/inventories}
    section :list, "#inventories-list" do
      elements :inventories, '.inventory'
      def selector_for_inventory(inventory)
        "#inventory_#{inventory.id.to_s}_row"
      end

      def find_inventory(inventory)
        find selector_for_inventory(inventory)
      end
    end
  end
end

This makes my tests much each to read. Instead of typing

find "#inventory_#{inv.id.to_s}_row"

in my test, it instead looks like:

find_inventory(inv)

SO MUCH PRETTIER!

Let’s look at how SitePrism can help our InventoryShow page:

module Inventories
  class InventoriesShow < SitePrism::Page
    set_url '/inventories/{id}'
    set_url_matcher %r{/inventories/\d+}
    
    section :inventory_info, '#inventory-information' do
      element :name, '.inventory-name'
    end
  end
end

With just that little bit, we can validate that the page loaded what we want:

expect(page.inventory_info.name.text).to include inv.name

Overall, so much nicer than having all the css/xpath selectors all over your RSpec tests. Check it out!