[rspec-users] should contain vs. =~

[David Chelimsky]

On Sep 6, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Brennon Bortz wrote:

> On 6 Sep 2010, at 14:55, David Chelimsky wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 6, 2010, at 8:15 AM, Brennon Bortz wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm developing another view test.  Relevant example:
>>> 
>>> it "should show the item's url" do
>>>       rendered.should contain("http://www.example.com")
>>> end
>>> 
>>> I'm calling render in a before block.  I have other similar examples on the page in which I'm simply using:
>>> 
>>> rendered.should =~ "..."
>>> 
>>> These all work fine, as does the first example I posted here.  However, when trying to express that first example with a regex (which I prefer), the example fails:
>>> 
>>> it "should show the item's url" do
>>>       rendered.should =~ /http:\/\/www.example.com/
>>> end
>>> 
>>> Am I missing something?
> 
> 
> Failures:
>   1) widgets/show.html.erb widget details should show the widget's url
>      Failure/Error: rendered.should =~ /http:\/\/www.example.com/
>      expected: /http:\/\/www.example.com/,
>           got: "http://www.example.com" (using =~)
> 
> I realise this is because of the escaped HTML output, but I'm not quite sure what to do about it...

I think contain is your best bet here, unless you actually want to change the expectation so it includes the escaped characters.

FWIW,
David
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