Question

My test started failing because I added a debugger after an XML expected block. Now it produces a single \n at the end of the statement that fails my test. And I can’t seem to get rid of it anyway I delete or move around my text.

Then I wrote this to make it pass :

      expected = <<-XML
    <?xml version="1.0" ?>
    <?qbxml version="5.0" ?>
    <QBXML>
      <QBXMLMsgsRq onError="continueOnError">
      </QBXMLMsgsRq>
    </QBXML>
    XML
  assert_equal expected.gsub(/\n/,'').gsub(' ',''), result.gsub(/\n/,'').gsub(' ','')
  #assert_equal expected.strip, result

Otherwise the commented out one used to work. Is there some dumb obvious sense I’m missing here?

Answer 1

I would not compare strings, it just sucks.

Instead I would compare the object representations.

Try to use: Hash#from_xml and compare the hashes.