FormObjectModel

This gem lets you construct an object model of a form you're using in your request specs. With a form object model, locators and field types are defined in a single place so if the form structure changes your test don't need to change, only the definition of the form fields.

So given the following form in a page:

<form action="/foo">
  <label for="name">Name</label>
  <input type="text" name="name" id="name" />

  <label for="title">Title</label>
  <select id="title" name="title">
    <option>Mr</option>
    <option>Miss</option>
    <option>Mrs</option>
  </select>

  <h3>Gender</h3>
  <label for="gender_male">Male</label>
  <input type="radio" name="gender" value="male" id="gender_male" />

  <label for="gender_female">Female</label>
  <input type="radio" name="gender" value="female" id="gender_female" />
</form>

Forms are defined like so:

form = FormObjectModel::Form.new do |fom|
  fom.text_field :name, "Name"
  fom.select     :title, "Title"
  fom.radio      :gender, "input[name = gender]"
end

You can then set the value of the fields, in a consistent way, regardless of the field type. This is done like so:

form.name  = "Joe Bloggs"
form.title = "Mr"
form.gender = "Male"

And assert the field value using:

form.name.should have_value("Joe Bloggs")
form.title.should have_value("Mr")
form.gender.should have_value("Male")

• Support more field types, currently just handle, text, select and radio buttons.
• Make it easier to define custom field types for custom widgets.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'form_object_model'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install form_object_model

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request