Another day fixing cucumber tests because of firefox update.

After updating to firefox 6 all of my cucumber tests stopped working. Basically none of the button and link clicks were working. After debugging for a while I figured out that for some reason "click_button" and "click_link" were silently failing. I then googled about the issue and found work around for it. Here it is:

• Instead of click_button(button_text), first find the button by invoking find_button(button_text)


• Then call button.native.send_keys([:return]), which will perform "Enter" key on the button.


• Same will work with link as well.

I faced the issue with following system configuration:

• Windows XP SP3


• ruby 1.8.7


• Firefox 6.0.1


• cucumber 1.0.2


• capybara 1.1.0


• selenium-webdriver 2.5.0