Actually inspired by Fransico (in the comments), I write down my knowledge.
I write my own answer, it may helps others too....
First I want to mention, I answer my question with – do integration testing only.
With cucumber and selenium.
And specific javascript testing with jasmine.
But, when integration testing with cucumber (edge) rails (3.1), capybara and selenium you have to be aware of some things:
Look, that you have all your gems updated!
1) Activate your driver, if you haven't already
features/support/capybara.rb
Capybara.javascript_driver = :selenium
2) At the moment only Firefox <=4 works with webdriver selenium for rails, as I found out hardly after hours of configuring and installing each component from scratch, like rack etc.
3) Capybara itself not handles much, which serves you for klicking e.g. on lists, jquery-tokeninput especially.
3.1) I use this for selecting an Item from the tokens in the list:
When(/^I select the option containing "([^\"]*)" in the Tag List/) do |text|
find("li:contains('#{text}')").click
end
You may find this method with "locate" instead of find, don't try this, api / driver has changed to find.
Find waits automatically and check for a Ajax respond in addition of dom finding elements.
4) Add your own helper / finder / click routines for your JS / Ajax responded code,
keep in mind, it is "only" an integration test, you may want to test your JS code with yasmine or another js test framework.
For furthter information also check Screencasts from Ryan Bates (http://railscasts.com), he covers several Topics on Testing Rails; check the latest one for Javascript e.g.
Or this blog: http://openmonkey.com/2010/04/09/javascript-testing-with-cucumber-capybara/
(thnx francisco)
hope this helps someone else as well.