Rspec testing for html entities in page content

Question

I\'m writing a request spec and would like to test for the presence of the string \"Reports » Aging Reports\". I get an error (invalid multibyte char) if I put in the character

Answer 1

html_safe does not remove html tags if thats what you want.

If you will remove html tags before you test you can use sanitize gem.

# in Gemfile
gem 'sanitize'

# in testfile
require 'sanitize'
html = Sanitize.clean(page.body.text)
html.should have_content("Reports » Aging Reports")