Rspec and prawn

Testing RSpec
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Hi,
I’ve just started using prawn but am at a bit of a loss how to create my
view specs for it.
For example, my normal view spec has things like
response.should have_tag(“blah”)
or
response.body.should =~ /something/

How do I do this with prawn output?

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aa aa wrote:

Hi,
I’ve just started using prawn but am at a bit of a loss how to create my
view specs for it.
For example, my normal view spec has things like
response.should have_tag(“blah”)
or
response.body.should =~ /something/

How do I do this with prawn output?

In what language is prawn output?

Generally speaking, a View is 2D or 3D, yet our tests must run in 1
dimension.
In HTML, we do that by parsing the elements back into a DOM, and
inspecting
this. We don’t necessarily do it by rendering a page and looking at it!

So if prawn were PS, can you get a post script parser, parse it, and
look for
your details?

(Note, too, that .should =~ is only a cheap approximation of parsing…)

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On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:02 PM, aa aa [email protected] wrote:

Hi,
I’ve just started using prawn but am at a bit of a loss how to create my
view specs for it.
For example, my normal view spec has things like
response.should have_tag(“blah”)
or
response.body.should =~ /something/

How do I do this with prawn output?

Short answer, you can’t–at least not yet. PDF is not a plain text
markup language like HTML so its not a problem so easily solved. I
haven’t spec’d a PDF, but when looking into it at one point I came
across PDF Reader.

http://github.com/yob/pdf-wrapper/tree

Perhaps that will help you find a starting place.

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Zach D. [email protected]
wrote:

Short answer, you can’t–at least not yet. PDF is not a plain text
markup language like HTML so its not a problem so easily solved. I
haven’t spec’d a PDF, but when looking into it at one point I came
across PDF Reader.

http://github.com/yob/pdf-wrapper/tree

Oops wrong URL:

http://github.com/yob/pdf-reader/tree

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http://www.mutuallyhuman.com

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aa aa wrote:

Hi,
I’ve just started using prawn but am at a bit of a loss how to create my
view specs for it.
For example, my normal view spec has things like
response.should have_tag(“blah”)
or
response.body.should =~ /something/

How do I do this with prawn output?

How do prawn’s own unit tests work?