Fallback to diff_strings when assert_equal_* has no syntactic changes
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marcoroth
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Jan 28, 2025
| @@ -47,6 +49,7 @@ def assert_equal_ruby(actual, expected) | |||
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| assert(actual == expected) do | |||
| diff = DIFFER.diff_ruby(actual, expected) | |||
| diff = DIFFER.diff_strings(actual, expected) if no_syntactic_changes?(diff) | |||
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If we'd use diff_objects here we'd also see the diff in whitespace, but I feel like it's not super nice to look at:
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When using
assert_equal_rubythe diff wouldn't show when you have whitespace differences in the strings you are comparing.This pull request changes that behavior by falling back to
diff_stringswhenassert_equal_*has no syntactic changes.Before:
After: