Capybara clicking icon links

This is a note about how to simulate the click on an icon link in Capybara code.

<div class="col-sm-4 align-center">
  <a class="email-link" href="/contact" title="Send email">
    <i class="fa fa-envelope"></i>
  </a>
</div>

A: title attribute

click_link 'Send email'

B: find by CSS (such as data attribute, id or class)

find(".email-link").click

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