Assert_select

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Hi all

This is my first post here. I ave been using Rails for a couple of months, and am starting to put together a test suite. But I'm having a problem with assert_select in my functional tests.

According to the documentation, it should be fine with two arguments - a CSS selector and a string to test it against. But no matter what I do I keep getting the exception:

wrong number of arguments (6 for 2)

It's defnitely the assert-select line that's throwing the error - the other tests work if I put that one in a begin-rescue block. I can't even get an example from the assert_select cheat sheet to run.

I'm using Rails 1.2.3, running on ruby 1.8.2 (yeah, I know that's old, but we're using Debian...)

Any help would be appreciated.

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It doesn't do anything real, yet, just:

assert_select "title", "Used"

Stack trace is:

test_index(MainControllerTest): ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (6 for 2)     C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/assertions/../vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb:199:in `initialize'     C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/assertions/../vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb:199:in `new'     C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/assertions/../vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb:199:in `parse'     C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/assertions/../vendor/html-scanner/html/document.rb:20:in `initialize'     C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/test_process.rb:439:in `new'     C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/test_process.rb:439:in `html_document'     C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/assertions/selector_assertions.rb:555:in `response_from_page_or_rjs'     C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/assertions/selector_assertions.rb:197:in `assert_select'     Z:/AffiliateSites/Hitachi/test/functional/main_controller_test.rb:36:in `test_index'

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Would you mind posting your whole text_index method? Based on the one line you posted, there's no reason why you should be getting that error message.