oops, my bad this works (asserts pass, and partial not called)
template.expect_render(:partial => 'bar/foo') render "/layouts/bar.html.erb" so does this: template.stub_render(:partial => 'bar/foo') render "/layouts/bar.html.erb" neither case seems to try to render the partial On Aug 11, 2007, at 6:11 AM, Jonathan Linowes wrote: > > Hi, I'd like to stub out a partial call but not sure how. > > I tried something like this > > it "should render partial foo" do > template.stub_render("bar/foo") > render "/layouts/bar.html.erb" > response.should render("bar/foo") > end > > but the partial is still getting called > > > On Jun 27, 2007, at 1:31 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: > >> Trunksters, >> >> I just added a couple of methods to ActionView::Base in Spec::Rails >> (as of r2136) that lets you do this in view examples: >> >> describe '/things/index.html.erb' do >> it "should render _thing with a collection of things" do >> assigns[:things] = things = [Object.new] >> template.expect_render(:partial => 'thing', :collection => >> things) >> render '/things/index.html.erb' >> end >> end >> >> This solves two big problems - mocking nested partials and mocking >> :object and :collection in partials. >> >> template.expect_render wraps part of 'spec/mocks', but not the whole >> framework - so we get the expectation matching benefit w/o >> conflicting >> with other mock frameworks that ppl might choose to use. >> >> There is also template.stub_render(opts) in case you just want to >> stub >> the render w/o verification. >> >> I would LOVE it if some of you would try this method out and provide >> feedback before we release it. Please feel to ask any questions about >> this on this list. >> >> Thanks, >> David >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users