TIL how to fix flaky faker tests in Phoenix LiveView

February 15, 2024
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Faker sometimes generates data with special characters. These can be conflicting in test assertions, because Floki (used by LiveViewTest) encodes certain characters by default.

To prevent Floki from encoding HTML special chars, you need to add:

# config/test.exs
config :floki, :encode_raw_html, false

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Phil-Bastian Berndt

Phil-Bastian Berndt
Tech Lead at Naymspace