Cucumber+Capybara: Problem with a scenario that redirects the browser outside of my app

Question

Given I have a rails app
And I'm using cucumber
And I'm using capybara
And I have an action that results in a redirect_to "http://some.other.domain.com/some_path"
When I test this action
Then the in-app portion of the test works fine
But I see this error: No route matches "/some_path" with {:method=>:get} (ActionController::RoutingError)

So capybara is properly redirected to "http://some.other.domain.com/some_path" but for some reason it thinks it should handle the path portion of the url inside my app. NOTE capybara has no problem at all with "http://some.other.domain.com/" -- my tests pass if I redirect to a url without a path portion.

Is this a bug?

Answer 1

Which driver are you using? The Rack-Test driver isn't going to allow you to request stuff from other domains. If Capybara is doing this with Selenium or Culerity, it's definitely a bug. If you want to help out in getting it fixed, writing a failing spec would be very appreciated :)

Answer 2

I had a similar situation where I was integrating my app with the company's SSO platform. The way I got around this was to get the site running Selenium via appending the @javascript tag against the scenario.

Answer 3

@javascript is a currently working solution, though there's also a mechanize driver in the works, which uses rack-test up to the point where you hit an external request.

It's a bit new and I haven't tried it yet, but am meaning to change my external @javascript tests to using it (tagged with @live or @external or similar) for the speed boost.