undefined method `selected?' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

[sandeepnagra]

I get error on executing following step on test site.

step %[I select "Male" option by text from radio button group having id "radio_gender"]

I then searched all files under C:\Ruby22-x64\lib\ruby\gems\2.2.0\gems\selenium-cucumber-3.1.5\lib\selenium-cucumber\methods

and couldn't find 'selected?' method defined anywhere. This is going to impact several canned tests.

[sameer49]

thanks @sandeepnagra for notifying. I am looking into issue.

[sameer49]

@sandeepnagra
You have passed "radio_gender" as element id but its name of elements on test page https://selenium-cucumber.github.io/ for radio button.

You should use following step.
step %[I select "Male" option by text from radio button group having name "radio_gender"]

[sandeepnagra]

Hi Sameer,

Sorry for the typo there, I used name only and still get the same error. It's not just this canned step, any canned step using the method "selected?" is impacted. I couldn't find it in any of the method files in the gem.

[sameer49]

@sandeepnagra ohh, I can reproduce it ! checking and fixing soon.
thanks.

[sameer49]

actually its problem with test page, the text of element radio button is not within any markup, so its not able to find text for the radio button. If you use by value its working

step %[I select "M" option by value from radio button group having name "radio_gender"]

the step by text should remove, because its not going to work anyway.

[sandeepnagra]

Thanks Sameer!

step %[I select "M" option by value from radio button group having name "radio_gender"]

worked but are you saying that canned step for option by text for radio button will not work for any page or just this test page?

And I am still wondering if the 'selected?' in "expect(radio_button.selected?).to be should_be_selected" an rspec or any other third party library method?

[sameer49]

get_text() works if text is within mark-up
e.g. <div id="name">xyz</div>
it will not work on <div id="name"></div> xyz

group elements have multiple elements with same id/name/class, we get list of elements and filter out the element with given text, in this case no text is returning for radio button so nil element is getting from list and its throwing error undefined method `selected?' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

[sandeepnagra]

Thanks for the explanation Sameer.