Re: ruby and true

On Apr 30, 9:29 am, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 30.04.2007 16:42, aidy.le...@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

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

.

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