Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· leemachin

Trigger events in your integration specs with Selenium

Store in a helper for extra convenience:

def trigger_event(element, event)
  page.execute_script "$('#{element}').trigger('#{event}')"
end

If you're not using something like capybara-wekbit, which supports event triggering natively, then that might come in handy.

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