On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Eric Smith wrote:

> Hello all.  I have a quick mock_model question.   Is there a way to
> use it when doing ActiveRecord testing outside of rails?

Right now you can't because it's defined in the RailsExampleGroup. Why  
don't you put in a feature request to have it extracted from there so  
that it can be used in isolation?

Cheers,
David

> What I want
> to be able to do with my ActiveRecord is this:
>
> class Child
>       belongs_to :parent
> end
>
> child.parent = mock_model(Parent)
>
> Now in rails I can do this, because mock_model does enough to fool
> ActiveRecord into think the relationship is valid, but to do this
> outside of rails I have to stub! the parent method to return the mock
> and only use the stubbed method in it.  That's not particularly safe,
> and I bet there's a simple solution to this problem.
>
> Eric Smith
>
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