On 22 Mar 2012, at 17:27, Fearless Fool wrote:
> The basic question: how do you mock a reference to a polymorphic class
> in RSpec? Trying the obvious thing leads to an error of the form:
>
> undefined method `base_class' for Post:Class
>
> === The details:
>
> # file: app/models/relation.rb
> class Relation < ActiveRecord::Base
> belongs_to :entity, :polymorphic => true
> end
>
> # file: db/xxx_create_relations.rb
> class CreateRelations < ActiveRecord::Migration
> def change
> create_table :relations do |t|
> t.references :entity, :polymorphic => true, :null => false
> end
> end
> end
>
> # file: spec/models/relation_spec.rb
> describe Relation do
> it 'should create instance without error' do
> post = mock_model("Post")
> lambda { Relation.create!(:entity => @post)}.should_not raise_error
> end
> end
>
> === Running the test:
>
> 1) Relation should create instance without error
> Failure/Error: lambda { Relation.create!(:entity => post)
> }.should_not raise_error
> expected no Exception, got #<NoMethodError: undefined method
> `base_class' for Post:Class>
> # ./spec/models/relation_spec.rb:39:in `block (2 levels) in <top
> (required)>'
>
> My hunch is that ActiveRecord is calling base_class on the mocked model
> (Post) to determine what to stick in the 'entity_type' column in the
> relations table. I tried explicitly setting it, as in:
>
> post = mock_model("Post", :base_class => "Post")
>
> but the error was the same.
>
> For all the reasons that DC espouses, I'd love to mock references to the
> polymorphic models, but I don't see how to do that.
Can you enumerate those reasons? This doesn't seem like a good use-case for
mock_model, to me.
cheers,
Matt
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