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Posted by Nathan Minarik
Nathan Minarik
7,358 Points

Cannot make my test pass in Building a Todo List with Rails 4: Viewing Todo Items, part 2

Hey - my test fails and I get the following message:

Failure/Error: within("h1") do Capybara::Ambiguous Ambiguous match, found 2 elements matching css "h1"

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with how I'm routing the index_spec, but my code is the same as the treehouse content. Any ideas?

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Someone else had the same problem recently, I simply recommended using the whole page as context, not the h1 selector.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

You can also give a specific class to this h1 in the view and in the test, Capybara should no longer be confused if you do it (remember, it's generally a huge guinea pig, it's not super smart...).

Nathan Minarik
Nathan Minarik
7,358 Points
Nathan Minarik
Nathan Minarik
7,358 Points

Thanks - I'm sorry for the repeated question; I didn't see it when i searched the forum. A quick fix I did was adding an ID to the h1 selector, then referencing that in the test.

Thanks again.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

No problem. I only mentioned that to tell you how I know the answer ;). It's sometimes hard to search for specific problems on forum.