On 8/12/07, rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just found myself stuck trying to rspec something so am hoping
> someone more knowledgable can help.
>
> I have a Connector class which has a class method 'results' that
> yields results it get from a network service based on a set of
> attributes that I pass to it. I am wanting to yield these results
> from my Intermediate class up to the next 'level' so the basic no
> frills set up would be this:
>
> class Intermediate
> def self.results(attributes)
> Connector.each_result(attributes) do |result|
> yield result
> end
> end
> end
>
> I've worked out how to stub things for the case where the Connector.
> each_result method yields a result once
>
> #setup
> @result = mock("result")
> Connector.stub!(:each_result).and_yield(@result)
>
> @attributes = {}
> @results = []
> @block = Proc.new { |r| @results << r }
>
> #action
> Intermediate.search_results(@attributes, &@block)
>
> # expectation
> @results.should == [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> However, what I actually need to do is check each result that is
> yielded by the Connector.each_result method and compare it to the
> previous one. If they are sufficiently similar I need to merge them
> (and same again if the next result is sufficiently similar). I only
> want to yeild merged results and results that are not similar to
> their preceeding result(s) - I'd imagined he code to do this would be
> something along the lines of:
>
> class Intermediate
> def self.results(attributes)
> @saved_result = nil
>
> Connector.each_result(attributes) do |result|
> if results_match(result, @saved_result)
> @saved_result.merge!(result)
> else
> yield @saved_result unless @saved_result.nil?
> @saved_result = result
> end
> end
> yield @saved_result unless @saved_result.nil?
> end
>
> def results_match(this, last)
> return false if last.nil?
> ....
> end
> end
>
> I can't for the life of me see how I should spec this though, as trying:
>
> Connector.stub!(:results).and_yield(@result1, @result2)
>
> is expecting the two results to be yielded at the same time and not
> sequentially.
I'm pretty sure you can get what you want by using should_receive
instead of stub and doing this:
Connector.should_receive(:results).and_yield(@result1)
Connector.should_receive(:results).and_yield(@result2)
> I can't see how to stub a method to yield sequential
> results so I can spec the behavior for different scenarios of
> similarities between subsequent results. Is it possible to do this?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated
>
> Cheers
>
> Rupert
>
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