check specfic words in the records using cucumber, capybara - ruby-on-rails

Question

In my code they have one table. In that table the row is not fixed. it may added by everyone.
I that table every third column text should be "Pending". It is the condition. I dont know How to check that every third column text have "Pending".
I was trying this. I dont know weather its right or not.
page.should have_selector('tbody tr td:nth-child(3)', text: Pending)
Its my html
<table id="thisis" class="table table-bordered table-striped">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Default</th>
<th>Status</th>
<th>Action</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Test1</td>
<td>true</td>
<td>
<span class="label label-success">Pending</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>View</span>
<span>/</span>
<span>Edit</span>
<span>/</span>
<span>Publish</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test2</td>
<td>true</td>
<td>
<span class="label label-success">Pending</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>View</span>
<span>/</span>
<span>Edit</span>
<span>/</span>
<span>Publish</span>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Thanks for your valuable answers.

Answer 1

Method 1: Use count
Say you have 10 rows in a page, and given your status columns have class "status". Then
expect(page).to have_css(".status", text: "Pending", count: 10)
Method 2: Use scope
To code a table with data, a convention is to assign unique id to each row at least. This will help lots of functions not only the test.
What you need to do is:
Assign an unique CSS id with data id for each row
Add a "status" class for status column for easy identifying
You view will look like this
<tr id="123-row">
<td>bla blah</td>
<td><span class="label label-success status">Pending</span>
...
</tr>
Then, for test, you can do this in Capybara:
within "##{item.id}-row .status"
expect(page).to have_content("Pending")
end