Rspec Failure/Error matching a string value

Question

I am trying to figure out why my rspec test fails when matching a string value. Other tests doing similar matching are successful.

I get the following failed result:

1) Class #method should get the string

Failure/Error: class.method.should == "LD 513"
 expected: "LD 513"
 got: "LD 513" (using ==)

If I output the result to the screen, I see this which shows the value of the variable and the variable type so my assumption is that everything should pass.

variable: "LD 513" -- String

Any idea why this test fails?

Thanks.

cswebgrl · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-02 03:51:39Z

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I found the problem. It was a character encoding issue. Essentially a hidden character was in between the letters and numbers. Once I normalized the string, the test passed.

answered Jul 2, 2012 at 3:51

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