[rspec-users] Stub a call that happens inside a block

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa]

Hello list,

I had a hard time to find out a way to mock the singleton feed method of the
following class:
class RssReader

  def self.feed(feed_url)
    output = []
    open(feed_url) do |http|
      response = http.read
      result = RSS::Parser.parse(response, false)
      result.items.each_with_index do |item, i|
        output << {:title => item.title, :description => item.description,
:pubDate => item.pubDate, :link => item.link}
      end unless result.nil?
    end
    output
  end
end

Since it is being passed a block, I could not intercept the code inside the
block, the specific code I'd like to stub is the http.read. I have tried to
do:

Http.should_receive(:read).and_return(xml) #xml being a fixture, loaded from
a file.

However, the stub is not applied.

Any ideas on how this could be solved? The only way I could think is to
avoid using the block...

Thanks,

Marcelo.

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