Ruby on Rails

On 30 August 2010 15:47, Marnen Laibow-Koser <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Colin Law wrote:
>> I have the following html
>> <p><b>text</b>value</p>
>> I can use
>> assert_select "p>b", "text"
>> to check the text portion, and
>> assert_select "p", "value"
>> to check that the value appears in a <p>.  I cannot work out how to
>> check that the two are in the same <p>.  I have used assert_select for
>> much more complex tasks but my mind seems to have gone blank and
>> google has not provided an example of this type.
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> First off: you shouldn't ever be using <b> tags.  That's 1990s physical
> styling.  That's *bad*.  You should be using a semantically named <span>
> instead.  But you probably knew that already.

Yes I know, it was generated by a rails scaffold some years ago if I
remember correctly. It is a rarely used admin page so I have not got
round to re-factoring it yet. It is all a matter of priorities of
course. Also of course this is one case where re-factoring may cause
existing tests to fail.

>
> Now to your question...I think I'd use assert_select 'p', :html =>
> '<b>text</b>value'.  Does that help?

Yes of course, I don't think I have ever had to use :html, it always
seems like a bit of a cop-out but it should fix my problem.

Many thanks

Colin

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