# Assert\_select **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 19, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assert-select/89348 "2007-03-19T18:49:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chris\_Ovenden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Chris\_Ovenden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_Ovenden)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assert-select/89348/1 "2007-03-19T18:49:10Z")
Hi all This is my first post here. I ave been using Rails for a couple of months, and am starting to put together a test suite. But I’m having a problem with assert\_select in my functional tests. According to the documentation, it should be fine with two arguments - a CSS selector and a string to test it against. But no matter what I do I keep getting the exception: wrong number of arguments (6 for 2) It’s defnitely the assert-select line that’s throwing the error - the other tests work if I put that one in a begin-rescue block. I can’t even get an example from the assert\_select cheat sheet to run. I’m using Rails 1.2.3, running on ruby 1.8.2 (yeah, I know that’s old, but we’re using Debian…) Any help would be appreciated. – Chris Ovenden [http://thepeer.blogspot.com](http://thepeer.blogspot.com) “Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world” ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Ovenden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Chris\_Ovenden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_Ovenden)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assert-select/89348/2 "2007-03-19T18:59:00Z")
Chris Ovenden wrote: > wrong number of arguments (6 for 2) What does your assert\_select line and stack trace look like? Are you sure your not passing 6 arguments to assert\_select? ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Ovenden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Chris\_Ovenden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_Ovenden)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assert-select/89348/3 "2007-03-19T19:11:15Z")
On 3/19/07, Alex W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Chris Ovenden wrote: > > > wrong number of arguments (6 for 2) > > What does your assert\_select line and stack trace look like? Are you > sure your not passing 6 arguments to assert\_select? It doesn’t do anything real, yet, just: assert\_select “title”, “Used” Stack trace is: test\_index(MainControllerTest): ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (6 for 2) C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action\_controller/assertions/…/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb:199:in `initialize' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/assertions/../vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb:199:in `new’ C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action\_controller/assertions/…/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb:199:in `parse' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/assertions/../vendor/html-scanner/html/document.rb:20:in `initialize’ C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action\_controller/test\_process.rb:439:in `new' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/test_process.rb:439:in `html\_document’ C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action\_controller/assertions/selector\_assertions.rb:555:in `response_from_page_or_rjs' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/assertions/selector_assertions.rb:197:in `assert\_select’ Z:/AffiliateSites/Hitachi/test/functional/main\_controller\_test.rb:36:in `test\_index’ – Chris Ovenden [http://thepeer.blogspot.com](http://thepeer.blogspot.com) “Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world” ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Ovenden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Chris\_Ovenden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_Ovenden)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assert-select/89348/4 "2007-03-19T19:45:28Z")
Would you mind posting your whole text\_index method? Based on the one line you posted, there’s no reason why you should be getting that error message.