On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Sergio Bayona <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Aslak Hellesøy wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Sergio Bayona <li...@ruby-forum.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> assigns[:property].should equal(mock_property) >>> 1 example, 0 failures >>> >>> >>> why zero failures? more specifically, why would :non_existing_method >>> return mock_property? >> >> Because you have stubbed the class method Property#non_existing_method >> with: >> Property.should_receive(:non_existing_method).and_return(mock_property) >> >> It doesn't make any difference whether this method is already defined >> or not. Once the stub is set up, calls to the stubbed method will >> return what you told it to return. >> >>> and why would the assigns[:property] be equal to >>> mock_property? >> >> Because your controller's #show method assigns @property with the >> value returned from Property#non_existing_method (which you stubbed). >> >>> did I eat some bad mushrooms? >>> >> >> That I don't know. Why do you think this behaviour is >> strange/hallucinating? >> >> Aslak > > > ah! okay it's starting to make sense... and the mushroom effect is > wearing out. just kidding ;) > > Thank you guys. By the way I just bought the "Rspec Book" and it's seems > like a great resource. It has encouraged me to learn the framework.
That's great news, thanks! If you have any constructive feedback to provide about the book, please do so at: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/achbd/errata http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/95 Cheers, David > > Sergio > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > 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
