Recently I found that elements found using 'find' of capybara may not work properly with 'fill_in'( Refer:Capybara can find but not fill_in)
So the params used by fill_in and find are different. Hence I can use set and fill my form fields found using 'find' is what I have observed.
Is there any other difference?
In terms of actually inputting the field, set and fill_in are exactly the same.
The method definition for fill_in is:
def fill_in(locator, options={})
raise "Must pass a hash containing 'with'" if not options.is_a?(Hash) or not options.has_key?(:with)
with = options.delete(:with)
fill_options = options.delete(:fill_options)
find(:fillable_field, locator, options).set(with, fill_options)
end
As you can see on the last line, the fill_in method is doing the same thing - ie using find to get the node and then inputting it with set.
