Question

In Capybara+Rspec, I can check that a link is missing:

response.body.should_not have_link("link_content")

This is fine, but unfortunately the test fails for when “link_content” partially matches a link, such as “this_is_a_long_link_content”. How can I change the test to make it pass in this case?

(That is, the matcher should not partially match, it should only fully match).

Answer 1

You can also use the following workaround:

response.body.should_not have_xpath("//a[normalize-space(text())='link_content']")

This is whitespace-agnostic and therefore a little more flexible than the raw HTML approach.