Rails - Oct 2010 - Cucumber Selenium web step to verify value of input field

I have an input field with an id which has a value. The web_steps.rb method
does not find the value. Is this the right step to use to check an input
field? It works fine for a text_area but not an input.

Scenario steps (tried both ways):
Then the "travel_card_number_gate" field should contain "5"
Then the "#travel_card_number_gate" field should contain "5"

From web_steps.rb
Then /^the "([^\"]*)" field(?: within "([^\"]*)")?
should contain
"([^\"]*)"$/ do |field, selector, value|
  with_scope(selector) do
    field = find_field(field)
    field_value = (field.tag_name == ''textarea'') ? field.text
: field.value
    if field_value.respond_to? :should
      field_value.should =~ /#{value}/
    else
      assert_match(/#{value}/, field_value)
    end
  end
end

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PS, this is the error message:

    Then the "travel_card_number_gate" field should contain
"5"                                          #
features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb:150
      expected: /5/,
           got: "" (using =~)
      Diff:
      @@ -1,2 +1 @@
      -/5/
       (RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError)
      ./features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb:155:in `block (2 levels) in
<top (required)>''
      ./features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb:14:in `with_scope''
      ./features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb:151:in `/^the
"([^\"]*)"
field(?: within "([^\"]*)")? should contain
"([^\"]*)"$/''
      features/travel_card.feature:453:in `Then the
"travel_card_number_gate" field should contain "5"''


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:46 PM, David Kahn
<dk-rfEMNHKVqOwNic7Bib+Ti1W1rNmOCjRP@public.gmane.org>wrote:
> I have an input field with an id which has a value. The web_steps.rb method
> does not find the value. Is this the right step to use to check an input
> field? It works fine for a text_area but not an input.
>
> Scenario steps (tried both ways):
> Then the "travel_card_number_gate" field should contain
"5"
> Then the "#travel_card_number_gate" field should contain
"5"
>
> From web_steps.rb
> Then /^the "([^\"]*)" field(?: within
"([^\"]*)")? should contain
> "([^\"]*)"$/ do |field, selector, value|
>   with_scope(selector) do
>     field = find_field(field)
>     field_value = (field.tag_name == ''textarea'') ?
field.text : field.value
>     if field_value.respond_to? :should
>       field_value.should =~ /#{value}/
>     else
>       assert_match(/#{value}/, field_value)
>     end
>   end
> end
>
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