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'

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 Josh Nichols. See LICENSE for details.