Capybara tests - alternative to sleep

I’ve been trying to find alternatives to using sleep for some time and it seems that every single suggested method to avoid using sleep never works and I’m at the end of my rope.

 it 'finds the correct product when searching by job type', js: true do

 fill_in('filterrific_for_work_type', with: 'Central')

 # once again, sleep feels like the only thing that works

 #sleep 1 # TODO: find a better way..

 expect(find('#work_queue_items_filter_reset')).to have_content('Reset All Filters')

 expect(page).to have_link('IP Central Report',

 href: work_queue_item_path(@release.id))

 end

Code (markup):

I also have this wait for ajax helper:

module CapybaraHelpers

 def wait_for_ajax

 Timeout.timeout(Capybara.default_max_wait_time) do

 loop until finished_all_ajax_requests?

 end

 end


 def finished_all_ajax_requests?

 page.evaluate_script('jQuery.active').zero?

 end

end

Code (markup):

And in spec_helper.rb:

RSpec.configure do |config|

config.include CapybaraHelpers, type: :feature

End

Code (markup):

This test breaks unless I add the sleep 1. and I’ve tried so many iterations using things like ‘within’ ‘find’, ‘have_content’ ect. This is really driving me crazy.