Question

I’m using tabnav plugin for Rails and I want to use rpsec to make sure it highlights properly.

describe 'account navigation links' do
  it 'should have account settings link' do
   get '/account/settings'
   response.should have_tag("li", :text => "Account Settings")
end

 it 'should be highlighted' do
   get '/account/settings'
   response.should have_tag("li", :color => "Account Settings")
 end
end

However the above code doesn’t seem to work. I’m using webrat with rspec btw. Any help? Thanks.

Answer 1

describe 'highlighting' do
  it 'should highlight account/settings' do
    get '/account/settings'
    response.should have_tag("a.active[href=?]", account_settings_path, /Account Settings/i)
  end

  it 'should highlight account/profile' do
    get '/account/profile'
    response.should have_tag("a.active[href=?]", account_profile_path, /Profile Information/i)
  end

  it 'should highlight account/picture' do
    get '/account/picture'
    response.should have_tag("a.active[href=?]", account_picture_path, /Profile Picture/i)
  end

  it 'should highlight account/notifications' do
    get '/account/notifications'
    response.should have_tag("a.active[href=?]", account_notifications_path, /Notifications/i)
  end

  it 'should not highlight Profile' do
    get '/account/profile'
    response.should_not have_tag("a.active[href=?]", account_settings_path, /Account Settings/i)
  end

  it 'should not highlight Notifications' do
    get '/account/profile'
    response.should_not have_tag("a.active[href=?]", account_notifications_path, /Notifications/i)
  end

  it 'should not highlight Picture' do
    get '/account/profile'
    response.should_not have_tag("a.active[href=?]", account_picture_path, /Profile Picture/i)
  end
end

You could write more test, especially for “doesn’t highlight on wrong action” scenarios, but I think this is good enough.