Clicked link and still on the same page (capybara)

When writing some automation i’ve tried to navigate to next page using a link…

click_on '6366'

…but saving and showing screenshot resulted in the same page being displayed. The reason was simple, link’s target was a new window (or tab). One way to handle this, is to switch context of window. It is as easy as

switch_to_window(window_opened_by { click_on '6366' })

but if you do not need/want to play around with multiple window contexts, consider following solution

visit find_link('6366')['href']

This way you will stay with current window context :)

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