Thanks! Looking up information on "should" is so hard since it's a common English word.
I found an alternative solution in the meantime: browser.text.include?("this is good text").should == false And I was actually wanting to look for a regex string, so I ended up using: browser.text.match(/regex/).should == nil On Apr 16, 4:03 pm, Alan Baird <alan.ba...@riskmetrics.com> wrote: > You were soooo close: > > browser.text.should_not include('this is good text') > > -----Original Message----- > From: watir-general@googlegroups.com [mailto:watir-gene...@googlegroups.com] > On Behalf Of James > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:00 PM > To: Watir General > Subject: [wtr-general] opposite of "should" > > If I'm looking to see that text is on a page I can have: > > browser.text.should include('this is good text') > > What if I want to make sure the page -doesn't- have the text? I'm not > sure how to reverse the should method so it's more of a "should not" > method. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---