Hello,
My first time here, and I'm pretty new to rspec, and indeed BDD/TDD, so bear
with me
I am trying to spec a fairly simple controller update action for an account.
The account belongs_to :user and user has_one :account.
the route is PUT: /users/1/account
here's the action
def update
@account = @user.account
respond_to do |format|
if @account.update_attributes(params[:account])
flash[:notice] = ' Account was successfully updated.'
format.html { redirect_to(user_account_path( @user)) }
else
format.html { render :action => "edit" }
end
end
end
I'm trying to avoid fixtures, and I'm using rspec's own mock framework
In normal operation the @user instance variable is assigned in a
before_filter (get_user) - so
i figured if I stub that I could then assign user:
before(:each) do
controller.stub!(:get_user).and_return(true)
instance_variable_set('@user', mock_model(User))
end
I tried other variations on this - like instance_variable_set('@user',
User.new) and others
but @user is never assigned
-- (actually I did have that bit working when I started this mail, but I
messed it up somehow) .. anyway - then the problem I couldn't get past
after that - and the reason I started writing this mail was: ....
how do I stub out that user's call to :account and get it to return an
account, so that update_attributes is called? --
( when I was using mocha.. which I abandoned for other reasons - there was
"any_instance_of" but I can't find similar in rspecs own mocking - and it
felt a bit wishy-washy anyway.)
It seems there is plenty of help around on speccing RESTful controllers, but
not when resources are nested
Any input on this will be much appreciated, and really improve my
understanding of mocking. So thanks in advance!
Julian
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