Capybara using contains to select an element

Suppose you have a select element that has a random number as the id like the one below:

< select class="select_xpath_class" name="myMethods[select_method_id_23749837]" id="select_method_id_23749837">
Please select... Select1 Select2 Select3
</select>

Capybara method of select won't work:

page.select("Select1", :from => "select_method_id")

This is because it will only find the exact match of the id.

To solve this we can use the find method directly with xpath:

find(:xpath, "//*[contains(@id, 'select_method_id')]").select("Select1")

GEB - selecting an element with partial name

To select an element on a webpage with a partial name in Geb and Groovy:

   static content = {
        elementField {elementName -> $('select', name: contains(/button[$elementName/))}
   }

   def selectContent(String selectOptionName, String value) {
        browser.elementField(selectOptionName).value(value)
   }

Check element exists in GEB

To check whether an element exists in a page using GEB:

   static content = {
        searchVisibleField(required: false) {$("#search-id")}
   }

    def isSearchVisible()
    {
        if (browser.searchVisibleField() == geb.navigator.EmptyNavigator.instance())  {
           false
        }
        else {
           true
        }
    }

searchVisibleField returns the instance of geb.navigator.EmptyNavigator class so we can use that to check whether an element exists or not in a page. Reference from The Book of GEB

Selecting radio button value in GEB

To select a radio button value in GEB using Groovy: in the page model define:

    static content = {
        selectRadioButtonOptionField {option -> $("input[type='radio']", name: "radioButtonName", value: option)}
    }

    def selectRadioButtonOption(String radioButtonValue) {
        browser.selectRadioButtonOptionField(radioButtonValue).click()
    }

I could not use the .value or = to select the radio button so I need to use the click method to select.