#219 awaiting-merge
Josh Nichols

support using assertions on arbitrary stringlike objects

Reported by Josh Nichols | April 15th, 2009 @ 10:40 PM

Currently, the assertions are hardcoded to matching against response_body. The matchers are able to be called on any 'stringlike' object, so it'd be useful to be able to use the assertions on any object as well.

For example, with the rspec matchers, you currently can do:


within '.pagination' do |scope|
  scope.should contain("1")
end

But, there's no way to do this with test/unit. Ideally, you'd be able to:


within '.pagination' do |scope|
  assert_contains("1", scope)
end

I've forked and branched to support this for all the assertions: http://github.com/technicalpickl...

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • gaffo

    gaffo May 7th, 2009 @ 06:57 PM

    • Assigned user set to “Bryan Helmkamp”
    • Tag changed from assertions to assertions, verify
    • State changed from “new” to “awaiting-merge”

    Interesting patch. Can you give an example of what you'd use this to test with html and test code? Need to verify the patch.

  • Josh Nichols

    Josh Nichols May 16th, 2009 @ 11:16 PM

    Here's an example:

    <div id="recurring_events">
      <a href="/events/1">Hackfest</a>
    </div>
    <div id="special_events">
      <a href="/events/2">Barcamp Boston</a>
    </div>
    

    So, I'd want to test that certain events are under recurring_events or special events:

    within "#recrring_events" do |scope|
      assert_contains "Hackfest", scope
    end
    within "#special_events" do |scope|
      assert_contains "Barcamp Boston", scope
    end
    

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