How to check if an element exists in Capybara + selenium page?

Question

css

Welcome all. Such a problem:
there is a call to the capybara method: How to make it so that in the absence of an element on the page not to run into an error
shares = session.find("a.UFIShareLink")

Capybara::ElementNotFound: Unable to find css "a.UFIShareLink"

Answer 1

begin  
  shares = session.find("a.UFIShareLink")
rescue Exception => e  
  puts e.message   
end