Question

RSpec2 does not include an have_tag test helper. Using webrat’s have_tag or have_selector matchers instead is not possible because Webrat and Rails 3 are not compatible yet. Is there a way to write useful RSpec view tests? It is possible to use assert_select instead of have_tag, but then one could Test::Unit tests in the first place. Or is it no longer recommendable to write RSpec view tests, because integration tests with Capybara or Cucumber are better?

Answer 1

Webrat caused too much trouble, it is also possible to use Capybara with RSpec. The Capybara DSL (with the functions has_selector?, has_content?, etc.) is available for the following RSpec tests: spec/requests, spec/acceptance, or spec/integration.

If you use the latest version of Capybara (~> 1.0.1) – older versions like 0.4.0 won’t support this – and add the following lines to your spec_helper.rb file

require "capybara/rspec"
require "capybara/rails"

then you could write for example the following RSpec request test

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Posts" do
  describe "GET /blog" do
    it "should get blog posts" do
      get blog_path
      response.status.should be(200)
      response.body.should have_selector "div#blog_header"
      response.body.should have_selector "div#blog_posts"
    end
  end
end