creates a new DocumentOutput object from the response body if hasn’t already been created. This is called automatically by the element and tag methods

Source Code

# File merb/test/hpricot.rb, line 130
def process_output
  if !@block && (@output.nil? || (@controller.body != @response_output))
    @output = HpricotTestHelper::DocumentOutput.new(@controller.body)
    @response_output = @controller.body  
  end
end