Using Capybara, Cucumber, and Selenium WebDriver in Ruby

Capybara is an acceptance test framework for web applications in Ruby. It integrates with Ruby-based BDD frameworks such as Cucumber and RSpec, along with Selenium WebDriver, for web testing capabilities. Capybara is widely used in testing Rails applications.

In this recipe, we will see how to use Capybara, Cucumber, and Selenium to test the BMI Calculator application.

Getting ready

  1. You need to install Capybara Gem by using the following command:
    gem install capybara
    
  2. Additionally, you also need to install Cucumber and RSpec Gem on a fresh Ruby installation, as follows:
    gem install cucumber
    gem install rspec
    

How to do it...

In Capybara, we need to create a features file for the stories under ...

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