Imagine that you want to refactor this…
expect(row).to have_css("[data-role=description]", text: "Desc 1")
expect(row).to have_css("[data-role=amount]", text: "$250.00")
into this…
expect(row).to display_entry_with("Desc1", $250.00)
What would you do?…
Maybe you can write a custom matcher, but at least for me, in cases like this, it just feel like too much.
One thing that I think is simpler is to use rspec’s compound expectations, to chain all the expectations that you want, and return a matcher.
Something like this…
def display_entry_with(description, amount)
have_css("[data-role=description]", text: description)
.and have_css("[data-role=amount]", text: amount)
end
I have found this little trick very usefull, I hope it can help you too.
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