rspec users - Feb 2010 - Matching Rails response to visible text

Hi,

I did a bit of experimenting/Googling for what seems like a common
operation, but didn''t like what I found (mostly hand-rolled
regexes)...

I want to verify response text, but don''t care about the structure.
The text happens to be in a table, but appears to the user as pure
text.

E.g. table with columns first_name = "Jim" and last_name =
"Johnson"
looks to the reader like "Jim Johnson"
I want to say something like response.should include_text("Jim
Johnson"), but the html tags throw the match off.

Any suggestions?

Sean

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Sean DeNigris <sean at clipperadams.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did a bit of experimenting/Googling for what seems like a common
> operation, but didn''t like what I found (mostly hand-rolled
> regexes)...
>
> I want to verify response text, but don''t care about the
structure.
> The text happens to be in a table, but appears to the user as pure
> text.
>
> E.g. table with columns first_name = "Jim" and last_name =
"Johnson"
> looks to the reader like "Jim Johnson"
> I want to say something like response.should include_text("Jim
> Johnson"), but the html tags throw the match off.
>
> Any suggestions?
Use the webrat contain matcher:

response.body.should contain("Jim Johnson")
>
> Sean
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Never mind, found it in the webrat specs 10 seconds after I posted...
guess it''s time for a break, lol...

response.should contain ''Jim Johnson''

- Sean