I generate the following html on the page in question <tr id="entity_id_1"> <td>Just An Entity</td> <td></td> <td>CORP</td> <td>000001</td> <td><a href="/entities/1">Show Entity</a></td> <td><a href="/entities/1/edit">Edit Entity</a></td> <td><a href="/entities/1" onclick="if (confirm('Are you sure?')) \ { var f = document.createElement('form'); f.style.display = 'none'; this.parentNode.appendChild(f); f.method = 'POST'; f.action = this.href;var m = document.createElement('input'); m.setAttribute('type', 'hidden'); m.setAttribute('name', '_method'); m.setAttribute('value', 'delete'); f.appendChild(m);f.submit(); };return false;">Destroy Entity</a> </td> </tr>
I have this step definition: When /I delete the "(.*)" entity/ do |row| visits entities_url my_entity = Entity.find_by_entity_name( "my entity number #{row.hll_words_to_i}") within("table > tr#entity_id_" + my_entity.id.to_s) do puts "table > tr#entity_id_" + my_entity.id.to_s click_link "Destroy Entity" end end The puts statement displays this: table > tr#entity_id_1 after wich I see this: When I delete the "first" entity # features/app/models/entities #/step_definitions/entity_steps.rb:128 You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! The error occurred while evaluating nil.to_html (NoMethodError) /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/webrat-0.3.4/lib/webrat/core/scope.rb:176:in `scoped_dom' ... The table entries exist. The find_by_name returns a valid instance. I do not know what the nil object is. Can someone point out to me what I am missing? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users