Case insensitivity in assert

Rails
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I’m only a few days old in this whiz-bang rails world, so bear with me.

I’m in the middle of running functional tests, I’ve got some assert
statements that check for the presence of a various tags on the page…
One of the tags being checked is a form, and assert_tag checks that its
:method => “POST”. Unfortunately, the autogenerated form shows the value
“post”, and apparently that’s just too much different (the assert
fails).

Is there a way to call a case-insensitive assert? Here’s the code in
question:

assert_tag “form”,
:attributes => { :action => “/user/register”,
:method => “POST” }

I realize I can just change the assert to check for “post” and
everything will be peachy, but this seems like something that could
cause me problems again down the road if I don’t figure it out now.

Thanks in advance.

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On Apr 8, 4:01 am, William T. [email protected]
wrote:

cause me problems again down the road if I don’t figure it out now.

You can give assert_tag a regular expression instead of just a string
(and assert_select is often used instead of assert_tag these days)

Fred

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Frederick C. wrote:

On Apr 8, 4:01�am, William T. [email protected]
wrote:

cause me problems again down the road if I don’t figure it out now.

You can give assert_tag a regular expression instead of just a string
(and assert_select is often used instead of assert_tag these days)

Fred

Doh. Thanks, and for the assert tip.

Cheers
cb

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Phlip wrote:

William T. wrote:

You can give assert_tag a regular expression instead of just a string
(and assert_select is often used instead of assert_tag these days)

Doh. Thanks, and for the assert tip.

Can you improve the code so its case is consistent? That would seem to
fix the
root problem here…

–
Phlip

I’m not really sure – the code is generated with form_for, and while I
would imagine that function will consistently generate a lower-case
“post”, I’m not comfortable trusting the rest of the language (or
myself) to stick with that convention.

The regular expression did it.

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William T. wrote:

You can give assert_tag a regular expression instead of just a string
(and assert_select is often used instead of assert_tag these days)

Doh. Thanks, and for the assert tip.

Can you improve the code so its case is consistent? That would seem to
fix the
root problem here…

–
Phlip