This gem is responsible for comparing HTML doms and asserting that DOM elements are present in Rails applications.
Doms are compared via assert_dom_equal
and assert_dom_not_equal
.
Elements are asserted via assert_dom
, assert_dom_encoded
, assert_dom_email
and a subset of the dom can be selected with css_select
.
The gem is developed for Rails 4.2 and above, and will not work on previous versions.
assert_dom_equal '<h1>Lingua França</h1>', '<h1>Lingua França</h1>'
assert_dom_not_equal '<h1>Portuguese</h1>', '<h1>Danish</h1>'
# implicitly selects from the document_root_element
css_select '.hello' # => Nokogiri::XML::NodeSet of elements with hello class
# select from a supplied node. assert_dom asserts elements exist.
assert_dom document_root_element.at('.hello'), '.goodbye'
# select from a supplied node. assert_not_dom asserts elements do not exist.
assert_not_dom document_root_element.at('.hello'), '.goodbye'
# elements in CDATA encoded sections can also be selected
assert_dom_encoded '#out-of-your-element'
# assert elements within an html email exists
assert_dom_email '#you-got-mail'
The documentation in selector_assertions.rb goes into a lot more detail of how selector assertions can be used.
By default, assertions will use Nokogiri's HTML4 parser.
If Rails::Dom::Testing.default_html_version
is set to :html5
, then the assertions will use
Nokogiri's HTML5 parser. (If the HTML5 parser is not available on your platform, then a
NotImplementedError
will be raised.)
When testing in a Rails application, the parser default can also be set by setting
Rails.application.config.dom_testing_default_html_version
.
Some assertions support an html_version:
keyword argument which can override the default for that
assertion. For example:
# compare DOMs built with the HTML5 parser
assert_dom_equal(expected, actual, html_version: :html5)
# compare DOMs built with the HTML4 parser
assert_dom_not_equal(expected, actual, html_version: :html4)
Please see documentation for individual assertions for more details.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'rails-dom-testing'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install rails-dom-testing
Under the hood the doms are parsed with Nokogiri, and you'll generally be working with these two classes:
Read more about Nokogiri:
Rails::Dom::Testing is work of many contributors. You're encouraged to submit pull requests, propose features and discuss issues.
See CONTRIBUTING.
Rails::Dom::Testing is released under the MIT License.