Check that a text field is empty with Cucumber

This will not work (it always passes):

Then the "Title" field should contain ""

The value is turned into a regular expression, and an empty regular expression matches any string!

Do this instead for Capybara:

Then the "Title" field should contain "^$"

And do this step for Webrat:

Then /^the "([^"]*)" field should( not)? be empty$/ do |field, negate|
  expectation = negate ? :should_not : :should
  field_labeled(field).value.send(expectation, be_blank)
end

Henning Koch

makandra.de

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Last edit

2011-07-28

Keywords

cucumber

License

Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.

Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2010-09-15 17:21)