ActiveRecord validation erros with cucumber/webrat

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Hi, I'm implementing user registration Cucumber scenario. Intentionally leaving CAPTCHA solution field empty I expect to pass my custom

THEN I should see "Captcha solution could not be blank" (not exactly that message because of i18n, doesn't matter)

but the scenario fails with the message: "expected the following element's content to include "Captcha solution could not be blank".

Inspecting response content which was flushed below the error message I could not find any validation error message indeed. That is why I doubt validation was done at all.

Filling registration form with right the same data and posting it from browser (in same env) results in expected validation errors appear whithin the form.

So, my questions are: 1. should Rails behavior in cucumber and development environments be equal if /config/environments/cucumber.rb equals /config/environments/cucumber.rb in case they operate same data?

2. should ActiveRecord validation messages appear when cucumber scenario fills a form with wrong values?

thanks in advance!

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Zhoran Tvalve wrote:

Hi, I'm implementing user registration Cucumber scenario. Intentionally leaving CAPTCHA solution field empty I expect to pass my custom

THEN I should see "Captcha solution could not be blank" (not exactly that message because of i18n, doesn't matter)

but the scenario fails with the message: "expected the following element's content to include "Captcha solution could not be blank".

Inspecting response content which was flushed below the error message I could not find any validation error message indeed. That is why I doubt validation was done at all.

just checked out that the error message appears at the page opended by save_and_open_page right before failing THEN statement. Validation was done, that's good.

Any ideas why it absents in the page dump which cucumber produces after THEN failing?