On 7/18/07, court3nay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any chance of some prettier syntax for that?
There's always a chance. What do you propose?
>
> -------
> Courtenay
>
> On Jul 18, 2007, at 2:30 PM, "David Chelimsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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