Capybara is a Ruby library for acceptance testing of web applications. It simulates how a real user would interact with a site: visiting URLs, clicking links, filling in forms, following redirects, etc. It acts via “drivers” (such as Selenium, headless browser drivers, etc) to automate browser behavior. It works with Rack-based apps, integrates with Rails (or other Ruby web frameworks), and is widely used in test suites to do feature/integration testing.

Features

  • Abstracts user actions (visit, click_link, fill_in etc) to simulate real browser interactions
  • Supports multiple drivers (Selenium, headless browser, etc) to run tests in different environments
  • Works with Rack‐based apps (Rails, Sinatra, others) to test internal request handling without needing a full HTTP server in some cases
  • CSS/XPath selectors, matchers, assertions for page content, visibility, etc
  • Support for testing with JavaScript (via drivers that support JS) including headless modes
  • Provides DSL to write expressive acceptance tests integrated into test suite (e.g., RSpec, Minitest)

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Ruby

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2025-09-17
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