Finding the text of a label using Capybara - ruby

Question

Finding the text of a label using Capybara
Background: I have a KBA page and a set of question and answers, the answers are in the form of 5 possible answers using radio buttons. So I need to cycle through each label for each radio button to match up with valid answers in a yaml file.
HTML:
<div class="questions"></div>
<div class="answers"></div>
<p>
<label>
<input id="answers_question_0_1" type="radio" checked="checked" value="1" name="answers[question_0]"></input>
RADIO BUTTON TEXT 1
</label>
</p>
<p></p> #another radio button and label text 2
<p></p> #another radio button and label text 3
<p></p> #another radio button and label text 4
<p></p> #another radio button and label text 5
My test code:
def answer_questions
.
.
.
i=0
def answers
page.all('.answers')
end
#This is accessing the answer value from the selected correct question from the kba.yml file
valid_answers = this variable contains the valid answer to the question
#********THIS IS THE PROBLEM BLOCK*****************************
#Set the radio buttons if they match one of the answers
#correct_answer = answers[i].all(:radio_button).find do |radio|
valid_answers.include?(radio.parent.text)
end
#********THIS IS THE PROBLEM BLOCK*****************************
i +=1
unless #correct_answer
p "Unable to answer question: #{question_text}" and next
end
#correct_answer.select
end
The problem lies in the "problem block" noted in the above code snippet. I can't figure out how to get the text that is tied to one label/p tag per radio button, instead ALL radio button's text are returned and checked against the variable "valid_answers" and that always fails.
I basically want radio.button.text to equal "RADIO BUTTON TEXT 1" for it's respective radio button. But instead radio.button.text returns:
RADIO BUTTON TEXT 1 RADION BUTTON TEXT 2 RADIO BUTTON TEXT 3 etc.
I'm guessing it shouldn't be radio.parent.text but something else, which I'm not sure.

Answer 1

It looks like you're making this more complicated than it needs to be - you should just be able to do
answers[i].choose("the text of the radio button you want to select")
You can catch an exception if the value isn't found and output your warning there.
Note: parent in a Capybara element is not the HTML parent of that element - it's the element that a finder was called on when locating the given element - so in your case it's the .answers element. If you do want access to the nodes actual HTML parent element you can call element.find(:xpath, '..')