Testing AJAX-intensive Rails application with RSpec

Question

I'm writing a very AJAX-intensive application using Rails 3.0.4, and testing it with RSpec. Most of my controller actions just respond to a "js" format, ie:

respond_to do |format|
  f.js
end

and other respond to json. I found how to JSON output, but I'm not really sure how to test the javascript output from the other actions.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

I'd checkout Selenium to handle testing of javascript/ajax functionality of your website.

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