Ruby way of writing this spec in "Rspec"

Question

I was wondering if there is any Ruby way of writing the following views spec(without using Capybara/Cucumber/Webrat helpers. Should be just in rspec or rspec-rails):

expect(rendered).to include("<input class='toggle_m' name='result_configuration[information]' type='checkbox' value='1'>")

expect(rendered).to include("<textarea class=details' disabled='disabled' name=result_configuration[info][]'></textarea>")

Thing is, I need to see if the the checkbox is checked(means the value is "1", value is set to "0" when it is unchecked) then textarea should be disabled. Any idea?

Or How would you write this expectation in a more readable way? Suggestions are most welcome.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could try a regex, but I think your method is good enough.

expect(rendered).should =~ /<input[^>]*name='result_configuration[information]'[^>]*value='1'[^>]*>/
expect(rendered).should =~ /<textarea[^>]*disabled='disabled'[^>]*name=result_configuration[info][][^>]*>

Limitations of this method are that if there are any checked checkboxes and any disabled textareas it will pass, to do anything more I would definitely require capybara or something to actually parse the html (regexes are not parsers)

EDIT: Added the name= part into both regexes as a response to the comment. Only advantage of this method is that it won't break if you change the class of the elements. Unfortunately I don't know any better solution other than external gems.

Answer 2

Writing such tests for the sake of testing and coverage will only make it difficult for someone inheriting the codebase. I have written such tests only to remove them later as changes to UI are more frequent and having such tests slows down developer. if i had to still write them in OO way i would design it on the lines of pageobjects (that's a gem) - wrapper class over dom and few generic helper functions. Also adding a new gem in test group using Gemfile/bundler would not affect production servers.