How can I test (Minitest) that a (Rails) view contains a <td> element with a certain text?

Question

When I simply use

assert_select td, "test"

it seems that it expects the first of the found td-elements to have the value test.

So I tried to first select all of them in an array, and then assume that the array contains the expected value:

assert_select 'td' do |elements|
  assert elements.include?("test")
end

But this also doesn't work for me, as it is always green. I am not really sure which parts of Rails and Ruby are available in the test so this last idea was just a shot in the dark.

Answer 1

Try this

assert_select 'td', /test/

it seems your td in not contains test only. // will work because it will match rather then comparing exact values.