Of the several ways available to test for this, what would be the
preferred way to see if the following is present in an html document
WITHOUT actually following the link?
<a href="/users/new">
I tried this:
response.body.should have_text(''href="/users/new"'')
But this test fails, even though the rake features report is this:
expected "href=\"/users/new\"", got ...
... </tr>\n\n</table>\n\n<br />\n\n<a
href=\"/users/new\">New
user</a>\n\n</div>\n\r\n\r\n ...
So, I am nonplussed by the report that it did not find what was present.
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On Jan 19, 2009, at 2:11 PM, James Byrne wrote:> Of the several ways available to test for this, what would be the > preferred way to see if the following is present in an html document > WITHOUT actually following the link? > > <a href="/users/new">response.should have_tag(''a[href=?]'',''/users/new'')> I tried this: > > response.body.should have_text(''href="/users/new"'')Or response.should include_text(''href="/users/new"'') have_text should be used "when you want to match the whole string or whole body" include_text should be used "when you either don?t know or don?t care where on the page this text appears." http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rspec-rails/1.1.12/> > > But this test fails, even though the rake features report is this: > > expected "href=\"/users/new\"", got ... > > ... </tr>\n\n</table>\n\n<br />\n\n<a href=\"/users/new\">New > user</a>\n\n</div>\n\r\n\r\n ... > > So, I am nonplussed by the report that it did not find what was > present.
On 19.1.2009, at 21.11, James Byrne wrote:> Of the several ways available to test for this, what would be the > preferred way to see if the following is present in an html document > WITHOUT actually following the link? > > <a href="/users/new"> > > I tried this: > > response.body.should have_text(''href="/users/new"'')response.should have_tag("a[href=/users/new]") http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rspec-rails/1.1.12/classes/Spec/Rails/Matchers.html#M000071 //jarkko -- Jarkko Laine http://jlaine.net http://dotherightthing.com http://odesign.fi Check out my latest book, Unobtrusive Prototype, fresh off the Peepcode oven: http://peepcode.com/products/unobtrusive-prototype-js
James Byrne wrote:> Of the several ways available to test for this, what would be the > preferred way to see if the following is present in an html document > WITHOUT actually following the link?Apparently this is the correct form: response.body.should have_tag("a[href=/users/new]") -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.