NOOB selenium rspec test not passing - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

I have the following integration test. It loads a page with a form on it. The submit button is pressed without any data so the form should show an error box. The form is submitted with ajax and should put the form back on the page with the errors.
I can see this in the browser but the test fails.
What am I doing wrong? I am a complete NOOB so need some guidance.
require 'spec_helper'
require "rubygems"
describe "Boards" do
describe "board creation failure" do
attr_reader :selenium_driver
alias :page :selenium_driver
before(:all) do
#verification_errors = []
#selenium_driver = Selenium::Client::Driver.new \
:host => "localhost",
:port => 4444,
:browser => "*chrome",
:url => "http://localhost:3000/",
:timeout_in_second => 60
end
before(:each) do
#selenium_driver.start_new_browser_session
end
after(:each) do
#selenium_driver.close_current_browser_session
#verification_errors.should == []
end
it "should show the error explanation div" do
page.open "/"
page.click "board_submit"
page.is_element_present("error_explanation").should be_true #should show error box
end
end

Answer 1

I figured it out.
I needed to add the following metho to tell Selenium to wait until all of the ajax calls were completed.
I put this method in my spec/spec_helper.rb file and made sure to have require 'spec_helper' in the file.
Here is the method in spec_helper.rb:
#needed for selenium ajax testing
def wait_for_ajax(timeout=5000)
js_condition = 'selenium.browserbot.getUserWindow().jQuery.active == 0'
#selenium_driver.wait_for_condition(js_condition, timeout)
end
#needed for selenium ajax testing
def selenium_setup
#verification_errors = []
#selenium_driver = Selenium::Client::Driver.new \
:host => "localhost",
:port => 4444,
:browser => "*firefox",
:url => "http://localhost:3000/",
:timeout_in_second => 60
#return #selenium_driver
end
As you can see above I also moved the setup code for the selenium_driver to the spec_helper.rb file to clean up my code and make it more DRY:
Here are my integration tests file:
require 'spec_helper'
describe "Board form" do
attr_reader :selenium_driver
alias :page :selenium_driver
before(:all) do
selenium_setup
#selenium_driver.start_new_browser_session
end
after(:all) do
#selenium_driver.close_current_browser_session
#verification_errors.should == []
end
describe "create board" do
describe "failure" do
it "test_ home page form" do
page.open "/"
("Happy Birthday Greetings | Home").should == page.get_title
page.is_element_present("board_bp_name").should be_true
page.is_text_present("Name").should be_true
("Happy Birthday Greetings | Home").should == page.get_title
page.click "board_submit"
wait_for_ajax
page.is_element_present("board_bp_name").should be_true
page.is_text_present("Name").should be_true
page.is_element_present("board_birthday_1i").should be_true
page.is_element_present("board_submit").should be_true
page.is_text_present("exact:Oops, looks like 1 error occured: \n Hey whose birthday is it? Please enter a name.").should be_true
page.is_element_present("error_explanation").should be_true
end
end
describe "success" do
it "should create a new board for a properly filled in form and show the correct flash message" do
page.open "/"
page.type "board_bp_name", "Test User"
page.select "board_birthday_2i", "label=October"
page.select "board_birthday_1i", "label=1967"
page.select "board_birthday_3i", "label=7"
page.click "board_submit"
wait_for_ajax
page.wait_for_page_to_load("30000")
page.get_location().should =~ /boards\/\d/i
page.is_element_present("css=div.flash.success").should be_true
page.is_text_present("Your friend's board has been created.").should be_true
page.is_text_present("Test User").should be_true
page.is_text_present("43").should be_true
page.is_element_present("greeting_link").should be_true
page.is_text_present("Add greeting").should be_true
end
end
end
end