rspec users - Apr 2007 - Newlines breaking "should have_tag :text =>" specs

Hi

I''ve got an RJS spec that is failing.  It looks like this:

specify "should have list of prooducts for particular provider" do
   @provider.products.each do |product|
       response.should have_tag("#product_name_#{product.id}", :text  
=> "#{product.name}")
   end
end

It fails when it renders a partial containing this:

             <td id="product_name_<%= product.id%>">
                 <%= product.name %>
             </td>

and gives this error:

''A rendered show_provider_products_for_dealer view should have list  
of prooducts for particular provider'' FAILED
<"product 1"> expected but was
<"\\r\n                product 1\\r">.
<false> is not true.


The following change makes it work:

             <td id="product_name_<%= product.id%>"><%=
product.name %
 ></td>


Bizarrely, while it fails on my Mac, it passes on Windows (both  
running 0.8.2).  Also it doesn''t appear to affect RHTML specs, just
RJS.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Ashley

You could do the following:

:text => /\s*#{product.name}\s*/

which would ignore arbitrary amounts of whitespace.

-Chris

On 4/27/07, Ashley Moran <work at ashleymoran.me.uk>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I''ve got an RJS spec that is failing.  It looks like this:
>
> specify "should have list of prooducts for particular provider"
do
>    @provider.products.each do |product|
>        response.should have_tag("#product_name_#{product.id}",
:text
> => "#{product.name}")
>    end
> end
>
> It fails when it renders a partial containing this:
>
>              <td id="product_name_<%= product.id%>">
>                  <%= product.name %>
>              </td>
>
> and gives this error:
>
> ''A rendered show_provider_products_for_dealer view should have
list
> of prooducts for particular provider'' FAILED
> <"product 1"> expected but was
> <"\\r\n                product 1\\r">.
> <false> is not true.
>
>
> The following change makes it work:
>
>              <td id="product_name_<%=
product.id%>"><%= product.name %
>  ></td>
>
>
> Bizarrely, while it fails on my Mac, it passes on Windows (both
> running 0.8.2).  Also it doesn''t appear to affect RHTML specs,
just RJS.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Ashley
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On 27 Apr 2007, at 17:13, Chris Hoffman wrote:
> You could do the following:
>
> :text => /\s*#{product.name}\s*/
>
> which would ignore arbitrary amounts of whitespace.
>
> -Chris
Cool thanks - I''ll try that over the weekend.  In the mean time, any  
idea why it passes on Windows and not OS X?  Seems very wierd.