HtmlFragmentCompare

Compare HTML fragments ignoring white spaces, comments, and different ordering of attributes.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'html_fragment_compare'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install html_fragment_compare

Usage

Before you use it, add:

require 'html_fragment_compare'

    
    expect(HtmlFragmentCompare.eql?('<h1 />', '<h1 />')).to eq(true)

    expect(HtmlFragmentCompare.eql?('<h2 />', '<h1 />')).to eq(false)
    
    s1= '
      <div class="show-image no-padding col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-5">
        <a href="/kreatio/kreatio-blog/1000393/incremental-demographics" title="">
            <img alt="Incremental Demographics" src="/w-images/bcf25e0d-9fbe-4293-ba7c-58c0de9eaadd/2/demographics-154x190.jpg">
        </a>
      </div>
    '
    s2= '
      <div class="show-image no-padding col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-5">
        <a title="" href="/kreatio/kreatio-blog/1000393/incremental-demographics">
            <img src="/w-images/bcf25e0d-9fbe-4293-ba7c-58c0de9eaadd/2/demographics-154x190.jpg" alt="Incremental Demographics" >
        </a>
      </div>
    '

    expect(HtmlFragmentCompare.eql?(s1, s2)).to eq(true)

See the spec folder for more examples.

Notes

Though all examples are using rspec. The gem can be used anywhere. Only external dependency is nokogiri.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/kum-deepak/html_fragment_compare/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request