rspec users - Sep 2007 - why no newlines in failure messages?

Instead of :

expected "<ul>\n  <li>red</li>\n 
<li>blue</li>\n</ul>", got "<ul>\n
<li>red</li>\n    <li>blue</li>\n  </ul>"
(using ==)

could we make rspec exceptions look more like :

expected "<ul>\n  <li>red</li>\n 
<li>blue</li>\n</ul>",
     got "<ul>\n  <li>red</li>\n   
<li>blue</li>\n  </ul>" (using ==)

or if that is too hard, even :

expected
"<ul>\n  <li>red</li>\n 
<li>blue</li>\n</ul>", got
"<ul>\n  <li>red</li>\n    <li>blue</li>\n 
</ul>" (using ==)

then it becomes readily easy to scan the two values and see differences, as
opposed to (something I have done far too often in the last few months)
copying the diff, pasting it somewhere and manually doing this.

I have looked at the --diff option, but it doesn''t show how something
has
changed, just where it has changed which is not quite what I want.

Jeremy
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On 9/8/07, Jeremy Stell-Smith <jeremystellsmith at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Instead of :
>
> expected "<ul>\n  <li>red</li>\n 
<li>blue</li>\n</ul>", got "<ul>\n
> <li>red</li>\n    <li>blue</li>\n 
</ul>" (using ==)
>
> could we make rspec exceptions look more like :
>
> expected "<ul>\n  <li>red</li>\n 
<li>blue</li>\n</ul>",
>      got "<ul>\n  <li>red</li>\n   
<li>blue</li>\n  </ul>" (using ==)
Trunk''s already doing this. Not released yet.
>
> or if that is too hard, even :
>
> expected
>  "<ul>\n  <li>red</li>\n 
<li>blue</li>\n</ul>", got
> "<ul>\n  <li>red</li>\n   
<li>blue</li>\n  </ul>" (using ==)
>
> then it becomes readily easy to scan the two values and see differences, as
> opposed to (something I have done far too often in the last few months)
> copying the diff, pasting it somewhere and manually doing this.
>
> I have looked at the --diff option, but it doesn''t show how
something has
> changed, just where it has changed which is not quite what I want.
>
> Jeremy
>
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