capybara find.text method ignore newline (convert to a space)

🔗 Parent Note

My Capybara note

n350071🇯🇵 ・ Sep 11 '19 ・ 2 min read

#rails

🤔 Situation

The find method automatically convert the '\n' to a space, so test will be false.

target = 'hello\nworld'

p target
#=> "hello\\nworld"

find('div.target').text
#=> "hello world"

expect(find('div.target').text).to eq target
#=> false 😅

🎉 Solution

There is Capybara::RSpecMatchers#have_content method.

• ⭕️ It judges the page or the node has the text.
• ❌ It ignores HTML tag, so if you want to test include HTML tag, you shouldn't use this.

expect(find('div.target')).to have_content(target)

📚 Capybara::RSpecMatchers