Re: [rspec-users] how to stub the :current_user and any methods associated with it

[Jarkko Laine]

On 11.4.2008, at 4.57, newbie wrote:

Thanks for the direction. I'm glad to hear that I'm going in the right
direction. I just have a final question and I seem to be hitting a
stub/mocking road block at the moment. In my controller I have this...

def index
@entries = current_user.entries
end

How would I rspec this out correctly? This is what I have but it looks
wrong.

 before(:each) do
   @current_user = mock_model(User, :id => 1)
   @entry = mock_model(Entry, :user_id => 1)
   controller.stub!(:current_user).and_return(@current_user)
   controller.stub!(:entries).and_return(@entry)
 end


 describe "on the index page" do
   it "should show all of the current_users entries" do
        
@current_user.should_receive(:entries).with(@entry).and_return(true)

What you probably want with the code above is this:

assigns[:entries].should == @entry

//jarkko

This is wrong. The with method means parameters the expected method call receives. In your case it gets no parameters. Besides, since you stub the entries method anyway, you can just specify the behaviour.

   end
 end










On Apr 7, 11:31 am, "Bryan Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Responses shown below...


will point you in the appropriate direction.



On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:17 PM, newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Sorry this isn't extremely informative ... in a bit of a rush. Hopefully it

I'm new to Rspec and I'm having a bit of trouble with this controller that I'm testing. I think I'm doing it right but I guess my syntax is

wrong.
I'm currently using the "acts_as_authenticated" plug in.

What I want to test out is

EventController on entering the tickets_page
- should show the tickets_page  if the current_user has NOT entered
this page today

-----------------------------------------------------
Below is my event controller
-----------------------------------------------------

class EventController < ApplicationController

 before_filter :login_required

 def tickets_page
     if current_user.has_already_entered_today?
       flash[:notice] = 'Come back tomorrow'
       redirect_to :action => 'home'
     else
       flash[:notice] = 'Welcome'
     end
 end
end

-----------------------------------------------------
Below is my rspec for this controller
-----------------------------------------------------

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
describe EventController do

 before(:each) do
   @current_user = mock_model(User, :id => 1)
   controller.stub!(:current_user).and_return(@current_user)
   controller.stub!(:login_required).and_return(:true)
 end

 fixtures :users

 describe "on entering the tickets page" do
   it "should show the tickets_page  if the current_user has NOT
entered this page today" do
    controller.current_user.stub!
(:has_already_entered_today?).and_return(:false)
    get :tickets_page

controller .current_user.should_receive(:has_already_entered_today?).with(:f alse).and_return(:false)

    response.should render_template(:tickets_page)
   end
end

end

-----------------------------------------------------
My errors
-----------------------------------------------------
Mock 'User_1001' received unexpected
message :has_already_entered_today? with (no args)

false here>)

So this is a good start ... it means that the controller action is actually being mocked out ... you just need to keep moving forward mocking/ stubbing out the rest of your controller actions. it's complaining that it doesn't know what to do on your *current_user.has_already_entered_today?* method. @current_user.stub!(:has_already_entered_today?).and_return(<insert true or

Anyone can help with any direction of what I might be doing wrong?

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