Capybara: Select an option by value not text

Solution 1:

This will work to select an option by value:

find("option[value='20120905']").click

To maintain the scope of the selector you could wrap it in a within block as such:

within '#date' do
  find("option[value='20120905']").click
end

Solution 2:

With Poltergeist as driver I can't click on an option like suggested in some of the other options above, instead you can do the following:

page.find_by_id('date').find("option[value='20120905']").select_option

Solution 3:

I wrote a helper method:

def select_by_value(id, value)
  option_xpath = "//*[@id='#{id}']/option[@value='#{value}']"
  option = find(:xpath, option_xpath).text
  select(option, :from => id)
end

Save in a .rb file in spec/support/

Example use:

before do
  select_by_value 'some_field_id', 'value'
  click_button 'Submit'
end