Nokogiri: why does this return only the removed tag and not the remainder?

Question

Where body is this:

<img src='/Users/test/Documents/cd-rum/whatever/spec/factories/images/rda.jpg' />Et qui incidunt provident sed nemo modi pariatur quia.

Why does this:

parsed_body = Nokogiri::HTML(body).search('img').first.remove
parsed_body.to_html

Return only the image tag?

Failure/Error: specify { expect(post.parsed_body).to_not include('<img') }
expected "<img src=\"/Users/test/Documents/cd-rum/whatever/spec/factories/images/rda.jpg\">" not to include "<img"

Answer 1

Because you're assigning the result of .remove to that variable - just remove the assignment

body = "<img src='/Users/test/Documents/cd-rum/whatever/spec/factories/images/rda.jpg' />Et qui incidunt provident sed nemo modi pariatur quia."
parsed_body = Nokogiri::HTML::fragment(body)
parsed_body.search('img').first.remove
parsed_body.to_html # => "Et qui incidunt provident sed nemo modi pariatur quia."