> I took at look at the sources on http://rubydoc.info/github/jnicklas/capybara/master/Capybara/Node/Finders and it seems to me that they all wait. 
In that case I have no idea why it's not working.

> Have you tried doing it without the sleep lately? 
Yes, many different ways. And I even tried XPath (capybara doesn't seem to respect xpath's `[1]` to get the first item).

> Do we have most recent version of Capybara?
Yes, 2.2.1.

> This test itself is not a huge deal but this is such a common use case (I think) that it will probably come up again so we should figure out the way to do it properly...
I suppose. But I'm stuck. And we are supposed to release tomorrow. And I'm way behind.