On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Scott Taylor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Apr 18, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>
> > Some have probably already discovered this but I've been working
> > through some ui stories, using the rails integration test stuff.
> >
> > I had a story where one very used step was failing in one place. The
> > failing expectation looked like this:
> >
> > response.should have_tag("tr.group_info_row td",group_title)
> >
> > I wanted to look at the response, but only for the case which was
> > failing, so I changed this to:
> >
> > debugger unless have_tag("tr.group_info_row
> > td",group_title).matches?(response)
> > response.should have_tag("tr.group_info_row td",group_title)
> >
> > And rdebug broke right before the expectation would have thrown its
> > exception, and I could see the problem, which was an earlier step
> > which had checked that the request had redirected without following
> > the redirect.
>
> Yeah - I use this all the time. I have a textmate snippet called
> debug(tab) which inserts the following:
>
> require "rubygems"; require "ruby-debug"; debugger
Well I wasn't really talking about just using the debugger, but using
matcher.matches?(value) instead of value.should matcher as a way to
trigger a conditional break.
--
Rick DeNatale
My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
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