[rspec-users] Error Testing a view in RSpec 2

[David Chelimsky]

On Oct 12, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Rafael Felix wrote:

> Well, I'be looking for test my views with rspec, looking the
> documentation at http://rspec.info/rails/writing/views.html we see
> some examples, in RSpec 2 the response was deprecated and now I'm
> using the rendered instead, but this code
> 
> describe "tags/search.html.erb" do
>  it "should be have an p when no company for the tag was found" do
>    assigns[:name] = "Teste"
>    render
>    rendered.should have_tag('h4', "Visualizando empresas pela Tag
> Teste")
>  end
> end
> 
> and I get :
> 
> 
> Failures:
>  1) tags/search.html.erb should be have an p when no company for the
> tag was found
>     Failure/Error: rendered.should have_tag('h4', "Visualizando
> empresas pela Tag Teste")
>     undefined method `has_tag?' for #<String:0x7f45cc59a880>
>     # ./spec/views/tags/search.html.erb_spec.rb:9
> 
> I don't know what method we use to check my views?

If you're using webrat, use have_selector or have_xpath. Otherwise, use Rails' assert_select.

HTH,
David