Sometimes within a Capybara test you need to verify that you are on a particular page. The obvious way to test for this is by making expectations against current_path or current_url.

The problem with this approach is that the previous action that was taken (such as a button click, or some fancy JS / History.pushState()) may not have completed when your expectation runs against current_path.

One way to address this is to add an expectation that has waiting logic built into it before the expectation against current_path:

expect(page).to have_content('Login')
expect(current_path).to eq('/login')

An even better way to do this is to use have_current_path which has waiting/retry logic built in so you don’t need to remember to always add an extra expectation with waiting above it.

expect(page).to have_current_path('/login')