How to get parent node in Capybara?
I really found jamuraa's answer helpful, but going for full xpath gave me a nightmare of a string in my case, so I happily made use of the ability to concatenate find's in Capybara, allowing me to mix css and xpath selection. Your example would then look like this:
find('#some_button').find(:xpath,".//..").fill_in "Name:", :with => nameCapybara 2.0 update: find(:xpath,".//..") will most likely result in an Ambiguous match error. In that case, use first(:xpath,".//..") instead.
There isn't a way to do this with capybara and CSS. I've used XPath in the past to accomplish this goal though, which does have a way to get the parent element and is supported by Capybara:
find(:xpath, '//*[@id="some_button"]/..').fill_in "Name:", :with => name
I found the following that does work:
find(:xpath, '..')Capybara has been updated to support this.