case insensitivity in assert

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I'm only a few days old in this whiz-bang rails world, so bear with me.

I'm in the middle of running functional tests, I've got some assert statements that check for the presence of a various tags on the page... One of the tags being checked is a form, and assert_tag checks that its :method => "POST". Unfortunately, the autogenerated form shows the value "post", and apparently that's just too much different (the assert fails).

Is there a way to call a case-insensitive assert? Here's the code in question:

assert_tag "form",            :attributes => { :action => "/user/register",              :method => "POST" }

I realize I can just change the assert to check for "post" and everything will be peachy, but this seems like something that could cause me problems again down the road if I don't figure it out now.

Thanks in advance.

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You can give assert_tag a regular expression instead of just a string (and assert_select is often used instead of assert_tag these days)

Fred

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Frederick Cheung wrote:

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William Tell wrote:

You can give assert_tag a regular expression instead of just a string (and assert_select is often used instead of assert_tag these days)

Doh. Thanks, and for the assert tip.

Can you improve the code so its case is consistent? That would seem to fix the root problem here...

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Phlip wrote:

William Tell wrote:

You can give assert_tag a regular expression instead of just a string (and assert_select is often used instead of assert_tag these days)

Doh. Thanks, and for the assert tip.

Can you improve the code so its case is consistent? That would seem to fix the root problem here...

--    Phlip

I'm not really sure -- the code is generated with form_for, and while I would imagine that function will consistently generate a lower-case "post", I'm not comfortable trusting the rest of the language (or myself) to stick with that convention.

The regular expression did it.