On Oct 6, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
> I am writing a small ruby script that will be accepting input from
> postfix's pipe command (ie, not running via the shell, directly
> executing).
>
> One of the things I need to do it spec the exit codes to make sure I
> am returing the correct exit codes for each condition as Postfix will
> then return SMTP errors as appropriate.
>
> I have two files that concern this bit of the program, init.rb and
> init_spec.rb.
>
> init.rb right now looks like this:
> ------------------------
> class Init
> exit 1
> end
> ------------------------
>
> init_spec.rb looks like this:
> ------------------------
> require 'spec'
> require 'systemu'
> require 'init'
>
> describe Init do
> it "should exit on status code 1 without parameters"
> command = "ruby mail_dump/init.rb" # not portable
> status, stdout, stderr = systemu command
> status.should == # what do I put here?
> end
> end
> ------------------------
>
> I have tried a number of things, from trying to stub exit to aliasing
> kernel.exit to something else and replacing it... all without joy.
>
> The spec runs and hits the "exit 1" in init.rb and does what it is
> mean to do... exit. But that also exits RSpec and so the test is
> never run!
>
> The only thing I found DID work is if I alias Kernel.exit inside the
> init.rb file to "real_exit" and then redefine Kernel exit like so:
>
> class Object
> module Kernel
> alias real_exit exit
> def exit(arg)
> return true if arg == 1
> end
> end
> end
>
> and then test exit by mocking it and making sure it returns true...
> but a spec that has to modify the test code isn't going to scale too
> well... and this doesn't seem right.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? How did you solve it?
I had a similar problem a while back. Aslak tipped me off to
dependency injection. Something like this:
describe Init do
before :each do
@kernel = mock(Kernel)
@kernel.stub!(:exit).and_return 1
end
it "should exit on status code 1 without parameters"
init = Init.new(@kernel)
init.start
init.status.should == 1
end
end
module Init
def start(kernel=Kernel)
kernel.start
end
end
Scott
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