Wait longer in Capybara

example_feature_spec.rb

around { |example| with_wait_time(6) { example.run } }

spec_helper.rb

def with_wait_time(wait_time = Capybara.default_wait_time)
  previous_wait_time = Capybara.default_wait_time
  Capybara.default_wait_time = wait_time
  yield
ensure
  Capybara.default_wait_time = previous_wait_time
end

Even if this method is definitely better and more sophisticated than sleep(x) it won't work for each use case.

Example:

view = find('.css-selector-element')
view.should have_content model1.title
view.should have_content model2.title
view.should have_content model3.title
view.should have_content model4.title
view.should have_content "HELLO WORLD"

wrapping this code in an around block containing the with_wait_time statement. It does only wait for find and till have_content has found any type of text, but while client-side code may renders asynchronous timing issues are still not resolved. Of cause this is a mistake by design.

Returning to the above example, rspec throws the error:

     Failure/Error: view.should have_content "HELLO WORLD"
       expected there to be content "HELLO WORLD" in "[...] HELLO WORLD [...]  "

Workaround

view.text.include?("HELLO WORLD").should be

Did you wrap your workaround into the helper method?

This seems to have been fixed with the wait option: https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/25xrdy/is_there_a_way_to_change_capybaras_wait_time_just/