Rails - Dec 2010 - Use assert_select to test for the occurence of a string

Hi,

How would I use assert select to test for the occurrence of the string
''DUS'' in a ''p'' tag about half way down my
view?

I tried:

def test_should_display_airport_names_in_show
  get :show, :id => flights(:dus_muc).id
  assert_select ''p'', ''DUS''
end

but Rails is just finding the first ''p'' tag (which
isn''t the one I''m
looking for) and returning false.

1) Failure:
test_should_display_airport_names_in_show(FlightsControllerTest)
[/test/functional/flights_controller_test.rb:75]:
<"DUS"> expected but was
<"Nr:\n  RA447">.
<false> is not true.

Thanks in advance.

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On 7 December 2010 18:19, Jim Burgess
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How would I use assert select to test for the occurrence of the string
> ''DUS'' in a ''p'' tag about half way down
my view?
>
> I tried:
>
> def test_should_display_airport_names_in_show
>  get :show, :id => flights(:dus_muc).id
>  assert_select ''p'', ''DUS''
> end
>
> but Rails is just finding the first ''p'' tag (which
isn''t the one I''m
> looking for) and returning false.
>
> 1) Failure:
> test_should_display_airport_names_in_show(FlightsControllerTest)
> [/test/functional/flights_controller_test.rb:75]:
> <"DUS"> expected but was
> <"Nr:\n  RA447">.
> <false> is not true.
The error is a little misleading.  Your assert_select will return true
if _any_  p tag contains (exactly) DUS.  When it fails it just shows
the contents of the first which is not very helpful.  Note that the
tag must contain exactly DUS.  Any extra spaces or newlines or
whatever will cause it to fail.  You can provide a regular expression
instead of a string to allow more complex checks.

Colin

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Oh, right. Thanks a lot. That had been driving me mad (it''s an exercise
in a book I''m reading). I changed the test method to:

def test_should_show_airport_names_in_show
  get :show, :id => flights(:dus_muc).id
  assert_select ''p'', "Departure airport:\n  DUS"
end

and it works perfectly.
Thanks again.
Jim

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Jim Burgess wrote in post #967016:
> Oh, right. Thanks a lot. That had been driving me mad (it''s an
exercise
> in a book I''m reading). I changed the test method to:
>
> def test_should_display_airport_names_in_show
>   get :show, :id => flights(:dus_muc).id
>   assert_select ''p'', "Departure airport:\n 
DUS"
> end
>
> and it works perfectly.
> Thanks again.
> Jim
View tests are a pain.  I highly recommend Cucumber instead.

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