On 7/18/07, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rails model association collections allow you to do nifty things like:
>
> article.comments.find(:all, :conditions => {:created_at > 1.day.ago})
>
> Has anyone found a good way to mock this up? I'm currently doing this:
>
> @comment1 = mock_model(Comment)
> comments = mock(Array)
> comments.stub!(:find).and_return([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> @article = mock_model(Article)
> @article.stub!(:comments).and_return(comments)
>
> I don't like this, because of that intermediate 'comments' object, whose
> only purpose is so that i can stub the chained method. I'd like to do
> something like this:
>
> @comment1 = mock_model(Comment)
>
> @article = mock_model(Article, :comments => mock(Array, :find =>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]))
>
> But trying this causes an error: "Mock 'Array' received unexpected
> message :find with (:all, ...)" because you can't inline stubs with
> ordinary `mock`. I can replace it with `mock_model`, but this feels unclean.
>
> Has anyone come across a good 'best-practice' solution to this problem?
You can use the stub() method instead of mock() to inline method stubs:
@article = mock_model(
Article, :comments => stub(Array, :find => [EMAIL PROTECTED])
)
The mock() method works differently because it does different stuff w/
the Hash under the covers.
>
> TIA,
> Paul Sadauskas
>
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