Scott, Thanks, your solution does work, although I'm not sure I like it. I like to stub out behavior in my before block but also use mock expectations to verify behavior in my specs. Similar to what Dave explains here:
http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2006/11/9/tutorial-rspec-stubs-and-mocks I defined the stubs in the before block: MyModel = mock('MyModel Class', :count => 1, :find => [EMAIL PROTECTED]) So, I'm assuming by adding the expectation in the first spec, I'm wiping out the stubs defined in the before block? If that is the case why does the first spec not fail because of MyModel.find ? Also, FlexMock does not seem to behave this way(not that they need to behave the same), but I would question whether this behavior is intentional? -Matt On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Matt Lins wrote: > > Hi all, > > Initially I thought this was a bug in the built-in mocking framework(and it > still may be), but I better hash it out on the mailing list before I > file/reopen the ticket: > > http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5645/tickets/478-mocks-on-constants#ticket-478-6 > > I thought my example illustrated my problem, but obviously I was passing the > wrong arguments to the mock. I revised my example to more clearly state my > problem: > > http://gist.github.com/2372 > > This is a snip of a some code from a library I'm writing. When I run this > spec I get the following: > > # spec migration_spec.rb > .F > > 1) > Spec::Mocks::MockExpectationError in 'Migration should find the records' > Mock 'MyModel Class' received unexpected message :count with (no args) > ./migration.rb:14:in `run' > ./migration_spec.rb:19: > > Finished in 0.009164 seconds > > 2 examples, 1 failure > > ------------------------------------------ > > I want to mock out MyModel completely because it's an ActiveRecord object. > As suggested, if I define the MyModel class, this whole spec will pass. But, > I don't think I should need to do that, should I? So it seems to only occur > when I assign the mock to a constant. > > So, even though MyModel.count is stubbed in the before block, the mock > reports an unexpected message. Note however the first example passes. > > The first example passes because "should_receive" acts as a stub, too. > The second example fails, because in the second example there is no stub for > the count method. I'd suggest adding this line to before(:each) (or to the > start of each test case): > MyModel.stub!(:count).and_return 0 > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
