How to find a list of elements that end with a particular string by using Selenium with Ruby

Question

Below is a method to check if the panel is displayed or not.

def verifyNav(section)
wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 10)
wait.until { @driver.find_element(:id => section + '-panel').displayed? == true }
end

I want to add code, which says that all other elements that have an id that ends in '-panel' should not be displayed.

I found that I can use the end_with method in which there is a find_elements method that returns a list of matching elements.

a = 'radio-panel'
a.end_with?('-panel')

returns true.. but if I try to call

@driver.find_elements(:id => end_with?('-panel'))

I get an error saying that end_with is an undefined method.

Any ideas on what I can do?

Answer 1

The problem is that, the end_with method is not defined anywhere. Try using a

CSS selector: @driver.find_elements(:css => '[id$="-panel"]')

Hopefully this should work.