Compounding expectations in Rspec and Chai

When I had multiple expectations on the same object in rspec, I would write the code like so:

expect(page).to have_content("Foo")
expect(page).to have_content("Bar")
expect(page).to have_content("Other Stuff")

You can save yourself some typing if you instead use compound expectations, which is basically the usage of the and function after the previous expectation. Doing so will allow the previous code to be writted as such:

expect(page).to have_content("Foo")
  .and have_content("Bar")
  .and have_content("Other Stuff")

The same concept also exists in the Chai JavaScript testing library (documentation):

expect(page).to.contain("Foo")
  .and.contain("Bar")
  .and.contain("Other Stuff");
Written on October 5, 2016 by evanbrodie