rspec users - Apr 2012 - how can I get prettier failure messages for integration specs?

When an integration test fails, I get a whole mess of garbage that is
all in red, very painful to the eyes--  Especially when I quickly just
want to see what went wrong-- in this case, all I want to see is
ActiveRecord::RecondNotFound-- but instead I see: 
 
Failure/Error: page.should have_content "Submit Payment"
       expected there to be content "Submit Payment" in "Action
Controller: Exception caught\n    body { background-color: #fff; color:
#333; }\n\n    body, p, ol, ul, td {\n      font-family: helvetica,
verdana, arial, sans-serif;\n      font-size:   13px;\n
line-height: 18px;\n    }\n\n    pre {\n      background-color: #eee;\n
padding: 10px;\n      font-size: 11px;\n      white-space: pre-wrap;\n
}\n\n    a { color: #000; }\n    a:visited { color: #666; }\n    a:hover
{ color: #fff; background-color:#000; }\n  \n\n\n
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound\n   ... bla bla bla bla bla bla forever.

......  Are there any options to reformat this output?  A small
improvement would be to actually turn \n into actual new lines...
However, an even better option would be to make this automatically
launch the browser so that the error page could be read properly.

Is this possible?


Patrick J. Collins
http://collinatorstudios.com

On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Patrick J. Collins
wrote:
> When an integration test fails, I get a whole mess of garbage that is
> all in red, very painful to the eyes-- Especially when I quickly just
> want to see what went wrong-- in this case, all I want to see is
> ActiveRecord::RecondNotFound-- but instead I see: 
> 
> Failure/Error: page.should have_content "Submit Payment"
> expected there to be content "Submit Payment" in "Action
> Controller: Exception caught\n body { background-color: #fff; color:
> #333; }\n\n body, p, ol, ul, td {\n font-family: helvetica,
> verdana, arial, sans-serif;\n font-size: 13px;\n
> line-height: 18px;\n }\n\n pre {\n background-color: #eee;\n
> padding: 10px;\n font-size: 11px;\n white-space: pre-wrap;\n
> }\n\n a { color: #000; }\n a:visited { color: #666; }\n a:hover
> { color: #fff; background-color:#000; }\n \n\n\n
> ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound\n ... bla bla bla bla bla bla forever.
> 
> ...... Are there any options to reformat this output? A small
> improvement would be to actually turn \n into actual new lines...
> However, an even better option would be to make this automatically
> launch the browser so that the error page could be read properly.
> 
> Is this possible?
If you''re using capybara you could put save_and_open_page in an after
hook. You''d still get the console output, but at least you''d
see the page in a browser.

HTH,
David
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, David Chelimsky wrote:
> If you''re using capybara you could put save_and_open_page in an
after hook. You''d still get the console output, but at least
you''d see
> the page in a browser.
Is there a way to make that happen only upon failures during integration
tests?

Patrick J. Collins
http://collinatorstudios.com

On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Patrick J. Collins
wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, David Chelimsky wrote:
> > If you''re using capybara you could put save_and_open_page in
an after hook. You''d still get the console output, but at least
you''d see
> > the page in a browser.
> > 
> 
> 
> Is there a way to make that happen only upon failures during integration
> tests?
> 
> 
Try this:

RSpec.configure do |c|
  c.after(:each, :type => :request) do
    save_and_open_page if example.exception
  end
end
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, David Chelimsky wrote:
> Try this:
> 
> RSpec.configure do |c|
> ? c.after(:each, :type => :request) do
> ? ? save_and_open_page if example.exception
> ? end
> end
> 
> 
Thank you so much!  That works perfectly...

Patrick J. Collins
http://collinatorstudios.com