How can I alleviate timing/AJAX woes using Capybara/Capybara Webkit/RSpec click_button and page.select?

For the sake of simplicity, I've left out most of my test and only included the offending code. It is:

click_button('Search')  
page.select 'Preferred', :from => 'ticket_service_type'

When I run this, I receive the following:

Failure/Error: page.select 'Preferred', :from => 'ticket_service_type'
Capybara::ElementNotFound:
  cannot select option, no select box with id, name, or label 'ticket_service_type' found`

The AJAX request this button click event triggers doesn't have anything to do with the select tag, so reversing the order in the test causes the test to pass. I know that Capybara's default wait time is 2 seconds and so I changed it to 10 with:

Capybara.default_wait_time = 10

This does not cause the test to pass. How can I get these two methods to play nice with one another and work in the order in which a user would operate the web page?

(Had I posted the code from my spec, I bet this would have been solved quickly.)

Solution

Be sure to add :js => true to integration tests which depend upon JavaScript.