On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Jim Burgess <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > Testing the view of an application with functional tests, how would one > go about checking that there are a certain number of <span> elements > present on a page, which all belong to a certain class. > > I tried: > > assert_select "form" do > assert_select "span", :class=> "required_field", :count => 13 > end > > But this just found all of the span elements on the page and returned > false.
You need to use the css selector to specify spans with a particular class: assert_select("span.required_field", :count => 13) -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---