Re: ruby and true

On 30.04.2007 16:42, aidy.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
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