nice_assert_select

Tired of ugly assert_select calls?

assert_select "form[action=?][method=post]", sources_path do
  assert_select "input[type=text][name=?]", 'source[name]'
  assert_select "input[type=hidden][name=_method][value=put]"
  assert_select "input[type=submit]"
end

How about some nice assert_selects?

assert_select form(:action => :post, :action => sources_path) do
  assert_select text_field(:name => 'source[name]')
  assert_select form_method_field(:put)
  assert_select submit_button
end

nice_assert_select provides helpers for making the calls more rubyish and more readable. Currently, they are mostly limited to form related selectors that do attribute matching.

form
text_field
hidden_field
password_field
form_method_field (this is the hidden field Rails uses for determing what HTTP method to use, since browsers are generally limited to GET and POST)
submit_button

It is by no means comprehensive, as it was extracted from a project which only needed these assert_selects.

Installing

For Rails 2.1 and on, add this to your config/environment.rb:

config.gem 'technicalpickles-nice_assert_select', :lib => 'nice_assert_select', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'

nice_assert_select

Installing

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