On Dec 6, 2007 4:22 PM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 5:12 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:
>
> > On Dec 6, 2007 4:08 PM, Scott Taylor
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Dec 6, 2007, at 4:41 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Dec 6, 2007 3:37 PM, Scott Taylor
> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> What is the appropriate way to stub out (and put an expectation on
> >>>> Object#__send__), without getting warnings from the Rspec mock
> >>>> library?
> >>>
> >>> Come on Scott - you know better than that :)
> >>>
> >>> Error please?
> >>
> >> Not an error, just a warning. And I should have written my
> >> description better. Basically, I wanted to make sure that my library
> >> didn't call send, but instead __send__. I tried something like this:
> >>
> >> before :each do
> >> @caller = Object.new
> >> @caller.stub!(:send).and_raise
> >> @caller.stub!(:__send__)
> >>
> >> end
> >>
> >> it "should be able to send the message with __send__" do
> >> @caller.should_not_receive(:send)
> >> @caller.should_receive(:__send__)
> >>
> >> @attributes.to_new_class_instance({}, @caller)
> >> end
> >>
> >>
> >> The @caller object is a sort of mock object. I would have used a
> >> real mock object, except that stubbing send on a mock object didn't
> >> seem to do anything.
> >>
> >> The warning was this:
> >>
> >> ./usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/mocks/
> >> proxy.rb:99: warning: redefining `__send__' may cause serious problem
> >
> > I LOVE that it says "may cause serious problem" - not "problems"
> >
> > Anyhow - I'm not sure what we can do about that. RSpec's stubs work by
> > redefining existing methods. Ruby doesn't want you to do that with
> > __send__. For the moment, there's no way around it, but I'm not even
> > sure what we could change in RSpec to make it work. Any ideas?
>
> Ah - so it's actually something ruby does, and not the mock library.
> I hadn't realized that.
>
> I'm not sure this is the best idea, but we could actually remove the
> warning:
>
> def execute_silently(&blk)
> old_warning_level = $VERBOSE
> $VERBOSE = nil
> yield
> $VERBOSE = old_warning_level
> end
>
>
> (or I could do this myself, in my own specs)
I'd be happier if you did that yourself. I don't want RSpec to be in
the habit of hiding warnings.
>
>
> Scott
>
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