The have_selector fails in an RSpec test but page renders correctly and the tag is present
I'm working my way through the Rails Tutorial book by Hartl and I'm completely stuck on one of the tests. The test (right from the book) is very simple:
require 'spec_helper'
describe UsersController do
render_views
describe "GET 'show'" do
before(:each) do
@user = Factory(:user)
end
...
it "should include the user's name" do
get :show, :id => @user
response.should have_selector('h1', :content => @user.name)
end
end
The test fails with the following error:
UsersController GET 'show' should include the user's name
Failure/Error: response.should have_selector('h1', :content => @user.name)
expecte开发者_StackOverflow中文版d following output to contain a <h1>Steve T</h1> tag:...
The page renders properly in the browser. Here is a snipped from the HTML source rendered by the browser:
<section class="round">
<h1>
<img alt="Steve T" class="gravatar" src="http://gravatar.com/..." />
Steve T
</h1>
</section>
I can even add a call to: print response.body in the controller spec and it will output the tags properly.
Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?
UPDATE - It seems like we have identified a potentially significant item: The HTML in the rspec test failure message is missing the body tag everything inside it.
1) UsersController GET 'show' should include the user's name Failure/Error: response.should have_selector('h1', :content => @user.name) expected following output to contain a <h1>Steve T</h1> tag: <!DOCTYPE html> <html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Ruby on Rails Tutorial Sample App | Steve T</title> </head></html> # ./spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb:33:in block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
Does anyone know why, if the page in the browser includes the <body> tags and the inner content and if print response.body shows the content, why would the error message skip it?
I had a similar problem when working through the Rails Tutorial. I forgot to include 'render_views' below the top 'describe' statement, which was causing the 'have_selector' test to fail.
My solution was in installing capybara, include in your Gemfile
group :development do
gem 'capybara'
end
then do
bundle update
bundle install
than edit you code to
response.body.should have_selector('h1', :content => @user.name)
now run your tests. It should work
The test is failing because the h1 is wrapped around a <img /> so the content isn't correct and the test fails.
you could do something like this:
it "should include the user's name" do
get :show, :id => @user
response.should have_selector('h1')
response.body.should contain(@user.name);
end
It turns out that syntax mistake in the partial that loads my style sheets was essentially commenting out all the body tag content. The question is why Firefox 3 rendered the HTML anyway. I actually solved the problem inadvertently by upgrading to Firefox 4. In Firefox 4, the body of the page didn't render and the debugging tools led me to the erroneous markup
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