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Karol85
Karol85

Reputation: 275

Rspec - view test and html_safe

Can somebody explain my why this test can't be passed? I'm simply test article view with html content. In view i display content through html_safe

.article_content
  = @article.content.html_safe

in my test i have something like below:

 context 'shows actual article' do
        before(:all) { @article = FactoryGirl.build(:article, id: 1, 
        content: '<h2>aaaaa ddd bbb</h2>') }

        before(:each) { render }

    it 'show content' do
      render.should have_selector('div.article_content',text: @article.content.html_safe)
    end

after that my test fails:

Failure/Error: render.should have_selector('div.article_content',text: @article.content.html_safe)
     Capybara::ExpectationNotMet:
       expected to find css "div.article_content" with text "<h2>aaaaa ddd bbb</h2>"
but there were no matches. Also found "\naaaaa ddd bbb\n", which matched the selector but not all filters.

but when i drop html tags from factory object's content test pass. i don't know why html tags are chane to '\n'. in browser all looks good.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1577

Answers (2)

mohnstrudel
mohnstrudel

Reputation: 649

After struggling a lot with the same issue I've came to following solution:

Include this at the bottom of your spec File:

def strip_tags(string)
    ActionController::Base.helpers.strip_tags(string)
end

Now you can test for things like this:

expect(page).to have_content(strip_tags(I18n.t('my_text.applicant_html')))

Now even if your translation includes some html tags it will check correctly.

Upvotes: 2

Fiona T
Fiona T

Reputation: 1929

The has_selector/have_selector matcher matches on the text which is actually visible - and the text that shows up on the page is aaaaa ddd bbb rather than <h2>aaaaa ddd bbb</h2>'

Upvotes: 1

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