I'm running rails-1.2.3 under Ubuntu 6.06, and I've come across a few issues I'd like to raise.
(1) If a controller sets flash.now[:notice] = "message", then in a functional test I don't seem to be able to match it.
flash.inspect shows "{}" and flash.now.inspect shows "#<ActionController::Flash::FlashNow:0xb63c4ecc @flash={}>"
However it's fine for a normal flash message with a redirect. Is there a way to test directly that a controller has put something into flash.now ?
I can workaround by using
assert_select "div#notice", /whatever/
although that hard-codes knowledge of what the layout is using to display the flash.
(2) One of the things I'd most like to test is simply whether the resulting page is well-formed XHTML, to check if I've missed out any balancing tags in my RHTML templates. Ideally I'd like "assert_result :success" to check for well-formedness, or to have a separate assert_well_formed.
What would be the best way to achieve this? Does assert_select "html" by itself enforce that the entire document is well-formed?
(3) When using submit_tag, there doesn't seem to be a simple way to do :confirm => "Are you sure?" like you can with link_to and button_to.
I can workaround by writing something like this:
<%= submit_tag "Copy", :onclick => "return #{confirm_javascript_function("Are you sure?")};" %>
Is there an easier way to achieve this?
Regards,
Brian.
