Chapter 7 page 231 running the full test suite

[PbPhil]

I have a problem with the following line from page 228

assert_select 'ul#vote_history li, count => 2

This is where my final test of this chapter fails and I'm stumped as to why. The failure message is returns 0 when expecting 2.

It works fine in the live version of the website and the fixtures file is set up correctly and as far as I can see formatting etc is ok.


Anyone got any suggestions as to why the test thinks the voting history is empty?

Running on Mac OS 10.5

[Fenrir2]

You have a syntax error in your assert. There is one ', but you need two. You also need a : before count.

assert_select 'ul#vote_history li', :count => 2

[PbPhil]

Hi Fenir, thanks for the reply, unfortunately when I posted I had typos. in my controller test file the line of code is exactly as you've quoted. Any other suggestions?

The content of the file is as follows.

def test_should_show_story_vote_elements
get :show, ermalink => 'my-shiny-weblog'
assert_select 'h2 span#vote_score'
assert_select 'ul#vote_history li', :count => 2
assert_select 'div#vote_link'
end

PbPhil

[Fenrir2]

What does the HTML source for that page look like? What is your view code? I can't tell what's wrong with just the test

[weswilliams]

i know this is a late reply to this thread but i did not see any solution here. i had this problem and did a html check that found a typo in the <!DOCTYPE line that caused all calls to assert_select to fail. so i believe any bad html tag or unclosed tag could cause these so don't look only at the 'failing' tag but make sure all tags are correct.

[Mittineague]

Are you working with book 1? The code from book 2 is

  def test_should_show_story_vote_elements
    get :show, :id => stories(:one)
    assert_select 'h2 span#vote_score'
    assert_select 'ul#vote_history li', :count => 2
    assert_select 'div#vote_form form'
  end

Does your fixture's yml file have more than 2 entries?

one:
  name: My shiny weblog 
  link: http://poocs.net/
 
two:
  name: SitePoint Forums 
  link: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/