R – Using webrat’s contain(text) matcher with haml

cucumberhamlruby-on-railswebrat

I'm using the following webrat matcher:

response.should contain(text)

With the following haml:

%p
  You have
  = current_user.credits
  credits

I've written the cucumber step 'Then I should see "You have 10 credits"', which uses the webrat matcher above. The step fails, webrat does not find the text in the response because the haml actually produces

<p>You have
10
credits</p>

How can I get the matcher to match the output that haml produces?

Note: the above is a simplified example to the situation i'm dealing with. Writing the following haml is not an acceptable solution:

%p= "You have #{current_user.credits} credits"

Best Answer

You're right, this is a pain. I've found Webrat to be annoyingly touchy too much of the time.

Two ideas:

Fix your test. In this case you want it to be blind to newlines, so get rid of them all: response.tr("\n","").should contain(text)
Fix your Haml. This is probably the better option. You can use the multiline terminator | to tell Haml not to put line breaks in:

    %p
      You have |
      = current_user.credits |
      credits

See the Haml reference for more obscure stuff like this. (A surprising amount of which has to do with whitespace.)

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I had the same problem under Ruby 1.9 and Rails 2.3.2, in order to get it working I had to make the following changes in the webrat gem.

In lib/webrat/core/locators/link_locator.rb I had to change:

def replace_nbsp(str)
  str.gsub([0xA0].pack('U'), ' ')
end

def replace_nbsp(str)
  if str.respond_to?(:valid_encoding?)
    str.force_encoding('UTF-8').gsub(/\xc2\xa0/u, ' ')
  else
    str.gsub(/\xc2\xa0/u, ' ')
  end
end

There was also a patch submited to webrat Ticket 260, but it did not work for me so I had to do the above. Hope this helps.

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Have you tried response.body

Then /^I should see "([^\"]*)" twice$/ do |text|
  regexp = Regexp.new(text + "(.+)" + text)
  response.body.should contain(regexp)
end

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