Simulate pressing Tab key in Rspec Capybara?

Question

I'm trying to write tests for managing focus in a dialog modal. How to simulate pressing the keyboard Tab key in Rspec Capybara?

Answer 1

Use the send_keys method, eg:

body = find('body')
body.send_keys(:tab)
body.send_keys([:shift, :tab])

Out of all the capybara docs pages for send_keys, the Capybara::Node::Element class has the best write up.