On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-09-25, at 14:04, David Chelimsky wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm calling #stub! and #should_receive on the same method within a class,
>>> and am finding that the method doesn't return the value given to #stub!
>>>
>>> 216 it 'should make a map marker' do
>>> 217 mock_property = mock 'property',
>>> 218 :address => '400 Bloor Street',
>>> 219 :title => 'Some Title',
>>> 220 :latitude => 12.34,
>>> 221 :longitude => 56.78,
>>> 222 :is_a? => true
>>> 223 mock_marker = mock 'gmarker'
>>> 224
>>> 225 RentalMap.stub!(:generate_marker_contents).and_return 'Some
>>> content'
>>> 226 GMarker.stub!(:new).and_return mock_marker
>>> 227 GMarker.should_receive(:new).with \
>>> 228 [mock_property.latitude, mock_property.longitude],
>>> 229 {:title => mock_property.title, :info_window =>
>>> RentalMap.generate_marker_contents(mock_property)}
>>> 230
>>> 231 marker = RentalMap.make_marker(mock_property)
>>> 232 puts "marker is a [#{marker.class}]"
>>> 233 marker.should equal(mock_marker)
>>> 234 end
>>>
>>> I want to stub GMarker#new to return the mock GMarker on line 223. I also
>>> want to ensure that GMarker#new is being called once with certain
>>> arguments,
>>> as seen on lines 227-229.
>>>
>>> However, this spec fails, and the 'gmarker' variable is nil:
>>> gmarker is a [NilClass]
>>> F.
>>> 1)
>>> NoMethodError in 'RentalMap#make_marker should make a map marker'
>>> You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
>>> The error occurred while evaluating nil.a?
>>> ./spec/models/rental_map_spec.rb:233:
>>>
>>> If I comment out lines 227-229, the spec succeeds, and the 'marker'
>>> variable
>>> is the expected mock object:
>>> marker = [Spec::Mocks::Mock]
>>>
>>> With lines 227-229 uncommented, why is the 'gmarker' variable nil?
>>
>> Do you have the latest code from git? If so this should work as expected.
>
> Hi David. I installed the rspec and rspec-rails plugins in my Rails app on
> August 19, and haven't updated them since. Was this functionality added
> after August 19?
Yep - Sept 17:
http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec/commit/dab567d187b89bae35c3c822f413928c1f9b046e
> -Nick
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