Paul Rogers
4/30/2007 3:43:00 PM
On Apr 30, 9:29 am, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 30.04.2007 16:42, aidy.le...@googlemail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I have some code the checks whether some text is on the HTML page
>
> > @@log.test_results(ie.contains_text('Dashboard')
>
> > I should get a TRUE (it's there), but it is returning the figure 62.
> > Is anything > 0 in Ruby true? If so, why, and shouldn't the object
> > automatically change to boolean?
>
> > My xml then is falling through
>
> > if result == TRUE then
> > test_status = @test.add_element 'teststatus'
> > test_status.text = 'PASS'
>
> There's only two falses in Ruby: false and nil. Everything else is
> considered true.
>
> Please note also, that it is usually a very bad idea to try to compare a
> boolean value with a boolean constant in a boolean context. Just use
> the value or use "!" or "not" to negate. This applies to all sorts of
> programming languages (just think of doing "if ( x == TRUE )" in C...
>
> Kind regards
>
> robert
as Robert has said, its generally bad to say if x==true
in this case contains_text does a reg exp on the html of the page, so
it returns either the start position of the string ( as an integer) or
nil