From Ruby to Elixir: Broken test for MessageController (182)

Thanks for sharing that. I took a look at CoreComponents.input and found the definition was slightly varied. I changed this line:

    # used to be:
    # errors =  if Phoenix.Component.used_input?(field), do: field.errors, else: []
    errors = field.errors

and the test passes. This was a change in the latest implementation of CoreComponents, hence the difference.

Now, to get this test passing without modifying the above line, I had to tweak the test to pass in blank inputs:

    test "invalid params is rejected", %{conn: conn} do
      params = %{message: %{to: "", body: ""}}
      conn = post(conn, ~p"/messages/new", params)

      assert html_response(conn, 200) =~
               Plug.HTML.html_escape("can't be blank")
    end

We can look through the implementation of used_input? to see why this works. By passing in the data, the form.params field contains the input field, so it counts as “used”