This was originaly posted on stackoverflow (<rspec2 - Capybara does not find the text that is actually there! - Stack Overflow)
It would be nice if answers could be there to, if not I will summarize the helping answers and post them there.
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In my actual project I use the following gems for testing:
* capybara from git://github.com/jnicklas/capybara.git in revision 6641fddcfc337a3ddaa84ac59272e884090332c3 * rails (3.1.0.rc5) (and its requirements) * factory_girl (2.0.1) * factory_girl_rails (1.1.0) * rspec (2.6.0) * rspec-core (2.6.4) * rspec-rails (2.6.1)
When doing `rake spec` I get the following error:
...F.....*................*....*.*.*.
Pending: <pending snipped out>
Failures:
1) Articles GET /articles/:id should show the article when clicking it Failure/Error: page.should have_content a.body expected there to be content "Dieser Artikel ist nur zum testen, erfüllt keinen Sinn und langweilig ist mir ohnehin. Das sollte nur mal so gesagt werden... MfG Euer Admin!\n" in "Stars3\n \n Stars!Artikel - 1 - This is an article created just for testing purpose\n \n \n Artikel\n\n \nDieser Artikel ist nur zum testen, erfüllt keinen Sinn und langweilig ist mir ohnehin. Das sollte nur mal so gesagt werden... MfG Euer Admin!\n\n \n" # ./spec/requests/articles_spec.rb:46
Finished in 1.96 seconds 37 examples, 1 failure, 5 pending
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/requests/articles_spec.rb:40 # Articles GET /articles/:id should show the article when clicking it
I cant see any differences between the expectation and the result... Can you point me in the right direction to make this one work?
The spec:
<!-- language: ruby -->
describe "GET /articles/:id" do it "should show the article when clicking it", :type => :request do a = Factory.create(:article)#, :user => u) a.save visit articles_path click_link a.title page.should have_content a.title page.should have_content a.body end end
The factory:
<!-- language: ruby -->
Factory.define :article do |a| Factory.sequence :title do |i| "#{1} - This is an article created just for testing purpose" end
a.title { Factory.next(:title) } a.association :user, :factory => :user #user { User.first } a.body <<eot Dieser Artikel ist nur zum testen, erfüllt keinen Sinn und langweilig ist mir ohnehin. Das sollte nur mal so gesagt werden... MfG Euer Admin! eot
end
The view:
<!-- language: ruby -->
<% title "Artikel - #{@article.title}" -%>
<%= @article.compiled -%>
The controller:
<!-- language: ruby -->
class ArticlesController < ApplicationController before_filter :login_required, :except => [:index, :show]
def show @article = Article.find_by_title(params[:id]) end
end
And the model:
<!-- language: ruby -->
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :body, :message => "Es muss schon Text drin stehen" validates_presence_of :title, :message => "Du brauchst nen Titel für den Artikel" validates_presence_of :user, :message => "Das hätte nicht passieren dürfen... Es wurde kein Nutzer angegeben" belongs_to :user # before_save :compile_body
def compiled body end
def to_param "#{title}" end
end
If something is missing, please feel free to ask, I will put it here.
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TIA Norbert