Learn by Doing wrote:
> How can I test that a view does not display a particular string any
> where?
> 
> E.g., the particular string is "I should not be here".  In my
> controller test, I have:
> 
> assert_select "div", /I should not be here/, false
> 
> but this does not work.  

Are you sure you have the correct syntax?

> It fails although I don't have that string in
> the view.  Also, I am testing against "div" blocks for now but what
> I'd like to test is against the whole view.

You can match against the whole response.

Note, however, that you should probably be doing most of your view 
testing with Cucumber, and that RSpec is much better to work with than 
Test::Unit.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vincent.

Best,
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