Capybara 3 normalize whitespace

Question

I've just updated Capybara to version 3.13.

I've noticed that you can add an option to assertions using, normalize_ws: true. For my existing test packs, updating every assertion to use this would be time consuming.

Can this be set in the env.rb file of your cucumber project to be invoked by default?

Answer 1

You can set Capybara.default_normalize_ws = true, although you should start updating your assertions to match what a user actually sees because the option will probably go away in Capybara 4