I was trying to submit a form without button using just Capybara and Rspec

capybara_form_submit.rb

class Capybara::Session
  def submit(element)
    Capybara::RackTest::Form.new(driver, element.native).submit({})
  end
end

#in the test
fill_in 'Search', with: 'dice'

form = find '#search-form' # find the form
page.submit form           # use the new .submit method, pass form as the argument

Did this work? I'm trying something similar, and it doesn't seem to work for me. The search query isn't returning the right result.

I found this very helpful. Thanks!

Rather than break open Capybara::Session, I included the method in all feature specs like so:

module FormHelpers
  def submit_form(form)
    Capybara::RackTest::Form.new(page.driver, form.native).submit({})
  end
end

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include FormHelpers, type: :feature
end

Then to use it:

    form = find("form[name=my_form]")
    submit_form(form)

This is awesome! I looked at both suggestions. Thanks!

I already have

Dir[Rails.root.join('spec/support/**/*.rb')].each { |f| require f }

in my spec/rails_helper.rb for other reasons, so I created a new file spec/support/submit_form.rb:

def submit_form(form_selector)
  form = find("form#{form_selector}")
  Capybara::RackTest::Form.new(page.driver, form.native).submit({})
end

Now my tests allow me to call things like:

submit_form '#my_form_id'
submit_form '.my_form_class'