RSpec and Testing for the presence of css class

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi there,

Hoping someone can help with this or point out alternative options for testing for the presence of a css class on a specific element.

We're using rspec and I would like to check for the presence of a specific css class ('current') on an element (link).

response.should have_tag('a#some_link')

I was hoping that the have_tag matcher might have some option to specify a class to match but can't gleam anything from the docs.

Any suggestions would be really welcome?

Armand

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We've switched away from using current on the element in favour of descendent selectors which makes the testing easier as well.

Cheers,

Armand

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Try: have_tag('a.current')

Christian

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Thanks Christian. In hindsight that makes perfect sense :slight_smile: