How to click on a link with dynamic href with cucumber watir?

Question

The title is my question.

I have a link like this:

<a href="http://192.168.0.199/api/users/confirm-register/86fd8faa8fc23a2c4c5203fae252c3d02458093f">
http://192.168.0.199/api/
<wbr>
users/confirm-register/
<wbr>
86fd8faa8fc23a2c4c5203fae252c3
<wbr>
d02458093f
</a>

The problem is that the part after "/confirm-register/" is generated every time and is different.

How can i click on it? Keep in mind we know the href starts with "http://192.168.0.199/api/users/confirm-register/" and there is no id.

PS: There is a sentence before this link and other after which both are static. (If that helps someway) Example:

Here is some text

<a></a>

Here is another text

This is also contained in a table thats in another table and so on, but those tables have no id or name, only style.

Maybe if find the cell or table that contains both texts and then click on w/e link there is in it?

Answer 1

You can use xpath to find the element based on the part of the href you know

//a[contains(@href,'api/users/confirm-register/')]

Answer 2

Looking for link text is always fragile, for you depend both on the SUT and the linked application.

The most stable feature in your elements are the classes, so:

xPath:

//div[contains(@class, 'class_name') a

or the prefibable way, using CSS Selectors:

div.class_name a

Maybe it would be interesting create a test to validate the link itself, using the code indicated by JSmith. The test for the redirection on clicking is a different one.