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ResponsibleMarkup v0.1: Unit Test Your Way To Responsible Markup

I’m proud to announce a new Rails plugin: ResponsibleMarkup. It allows you to write functional tests for your Rails application which test for things like:

  • (X)HTML markup validity
  • Backwards-compatible empty HTML elements
  • Well-formed doctypes
  • Unobtrusive Javascript
  • Well-formed XML prologs
  • Separation of display and structure in your markup

You can check out the documentation or go ahead and install it:


./script/plugin install http://svn.codahale.com/responsible_markup/trunk

Or, if your application is source-controlled via Subversion:


./script/plugin install -x http://svn.codahale.com/responsible_markup/trunk

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6 Responses to “ResponsibleMarkup v0.1: Unit Test Your Way To Responsible Markup”

  1. Edgar Says:
    May 25th, 2006 at 2:55pm

    Nice plugin, I will try it.

    I made a similar one to validate feeds (atom, RSS)

    http://feedvalidator.rubyforge.org/

    BTW, I invite you to register you and your blog in http://rubycorner.com

    Regards

  2. 10 cool Rails plugins by Coda Hale Says:
    June 12th, 2006 at 1:24pm

    [...] responsible_markup [...]

  3. Automate your HTML validation Says:
    December 29th, 2006 at 12:38pm

    [...] If you’re not using it already in your RoR projects I can recommend the excellent Responsible Markup plugin that enables us to add assertions such as assert_valid_html into our Functional Tests. [...]

  4. Flanagan Says:
    January 26th, 2007 at 2:11am

    Since this plugin was created the W3C have made two minor updates to the validator and I’m not sure this plugin works with the latest (0.7.4). I also see from reading the W3C documentation that the XML output format has been deprecated it seems in favour of a SOAP based API. Have you any plans to update the plugin to stay up-to-date with the validator?

  5. Michael Schuerig Says:
    February 5th, 2007 at 9:33pm

    Rails valid markup testing…

    Coda Hale has given the intersection of the Rails and web standards communities a very nice plugin for keeping your markup clean. It is aptly, if slightly pretentiously, named Responsible Markup.
    But let’s be honest, do you really want to spend m…

  6. Amiel Martin Says:
    October 4th, 2007 at 1:48pm

    I put this in test_helper, hopefully somebody else might find it useful

    def validate_each_action
    do_not_have_internet = false

    def revise_message(action,message)
    "For action #{action}, #{message.downcase}"
    end

    each_action do |action|
    get action

    follow_redirect if @response.redirect?
    next unless @response.success?

    assert_doctype(:html_401_strict, revise_message(action, ResponsibleMarkup::MSG_DOCTYPE_ERROR))
    assert_content_type({}, revise_message(action, ResponsibleMarkup::MSG_CONTENT_TYPE_ERROR))
    assert_unobtrusive_javascript({}, revise_message(action, ResponsibleMarkup::MSG_OBTRUSIVE_JAVASCRIPT))
    assert_no_long_style_attributes({}, revise_message(action, ResponsibleMarkup::MSG_LONG_STYLE_ATTRIBUTES))

    assert_valid_html rescue ResponsibleMarkup::ConnectionError do_not_have_internet = true
    end

    flunk 'could not validate HTML, no connection to internet' if do_not_have_internet

    end

    # returns an array of each template, maybe needs a name change?

    def each_action
    controller_name = self.class.to_s.gsub('ControllerTest','').downcase
    Dir.chdir("app/views/#{controller_name}") do
    Dir['[^_]*.rhtml’].collect{|f| File.basename(f, ‘.*’)}.each do |action_name|
    yield action_name.to_sym if block_given?
    end
    end
    end