I confirm I had similar problems with css selectors. I didn't discover
it deeply though, but used xpath assertion instead which worked as
expected.
m.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Núria <nuq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm afraid this is a bug. CSS selectors are converted to XPath queries
> before the evaluation, and apparently there is something wrong with that
> conversion.
>
> In this case, the expression:
>
> #person_acti...@checked="checked"]
>
> is transformed to the XPath query:
>
> //*...@id='person_active'][checked="checked"]
>
> The problem here is that the @ before the attribute checked is missing,
> therefore it fails to match any element.
>
> This workaround will get the job done (although it's not a valid selector):
>
> $this->assertQuery('#person_acti...@checked="checked"]');
>
> or you can use the assertXpath() method instead.
>
> --
>
> Núria
>
> 2010/4/27 David Mintz <da...@davidmintz.org>
>>
>> I am having some trouble figuring out the magic words. My response body
>> contains this:
>>
>> <input type="checkbox" name="person[active]" id="person_active" value="1"
>> checked="checked" />
>>
>> In the controller test, I when I say
>>
>> $this->assertQuery('#person_active');
>>
>> the assertion succeeds, but
>>
>> $this->assertQuery('#person_active[checked="checked"]');
>>
>> fails with 'Failed asserting node DENOTED BY
>> #person_active[checked="checked"] EXISTS.'
>>
>> After diddling around with several variations, the only thing that works
>> for me is to assert that the containing element contains a checkbox whose
>> "checked" attribute is "checked:"
>>
>> $this->assertQuery('#person_active-element input[checked="checked"]') ;
>>
>> It might be worth noting that the jQuery snippet
>>
>> $('#person_active[checked="checked"]').length == 1
>>
>> typed into the Firebug console evaluates to true. So it looks like my CSS
>> is kosher.
>>
>> Any ideas? Thanks.
>>
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>>
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