[rspec-users] Speccing the existance of an unchecked checkbox

[Bart Zonneveld]

On 3 sep 2008, at 15:28, David Chelimsky wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Bart Zonneveld  
> <loop at superinfinite.com> wrote:
>> Hey list,
>>
>> I found myself trying to verify there are some non-checked  
>> checkboxes in a
>> template today, and am kinda stumped how to do it :).
>> A checked checkbox is easy,
>> have_tag('input[type=checkbox][checked=checked]). But, an unchecked  
>> checkbox
>> hasn't got the checked attribute at all. And as it so happens, I  
>> want to
>> test for a number of checked, and a number of unchecked checkboxes.  
>> So, just
>> testing for input[type=checkbox] would return the number of checked  
>> *and*
>> unchecked checkboxes..
>>
>> any ideas?
>
> Let's say you want 10 checked and 5 unchecked. You could do this:
>
> response.should have_tag("input[type=checkbox]", 15)
> response.should have_tag("input[type=checkbox][checked=checked]", 10)
>
> It's not perfectly expressive, but a good example name would help:
>
> it "should have 15 checkboxes, 10 checked, 5 unchecked" do
>  render "/path/to/file"
>  response.should have_tag("input[type=checkbox]", 15)
>  response.should have_tag("input[type=checkbox][checked=checked]", 10)
> end
>
> WDYT?

Yeah, that's how I ended up doing it. Googled around a bit, and  
apparently you cannot do something like input[type=checkbox][checked! 
=checked].
I'll file a ticket for assert_select.

thanks,
bartz