danreedy / rspec-html-matchers

Old school have_tag, with_tag(and more) matchers for rspec 2 (Nokogiri powered)

Test views, be true! :)

Why?

• you need to test some complex views
• and you want to use RSpec2
• and assert_select seems is something strange to you
• have_tag in rspec-rails are deprecated now
• you need a user-firendly output in your error messages

Being true

Install

Add to your Gemfile (in the :test group :) ):

group :test do
  gem 'rspec-html-matchers'
end

Instructions for installing Nokogiri.

Usage

Simple example:

view=<<-HTML
<h1>Simple Form</h1>
<form action="/users" method="post">
<p>
  <input type="email" name="user[email]" />
</p>
<p>
  <input type="submit" id="special_submit" />
</p>
</form>
HTML

view.should have_tag('form', :with => { :action => '/users', :method => 'post' }) do
  with_tag "input", :with => { :name => "user[email]", :type => 'email' }
  with_tag "input#special_submit", :count => 1
  without_tag "h1", :text => 'unneeded tag'
  without_tag "p",  :text => /content/i
end

Also included special matchers for form inputs:

• have_form
• with_checkbox
• with_email_field
• with_file_field
• with_hidden_field
• with_option
• with_password_field
• with_radio_button
• with_button
• with_select
• with_submit
• with_text_area
• with_text_field
• with_url_field
• with_number_field
• with_range_field
• with_date_field

and of course you can use the without_ matchers (see the documentation).

More info

You can find more on RubyDoc, take a look at {RSpec::Matchers#have_tag have_tag} method.

Also, please read {file:CHANGELOG.md CHANGELOG}, it might be helpful.

Contribution

1. Fork the repository
2. Add tests for your feature
3. Write the code
4. Send a pull request

Contributors

• Kelly Felkins
• Ryan Wilcox
• Simon Schoeters
• Felix Tjandrawibawa
• Szymon Przybył

MIT Licensed

Copyright (c) 2011 Dmitry Mjakotny

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