David, thanks for your response. Matt, I totally hear you. In this contrived example, you probably could but in the project I am working on it would be very difficult. One of the challenges of joining a project already in progress...
On Apr 1, 1:45 pm, Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net> wrote: > On 1 Apr 2010, at 21:35, David Chelimsky wrote: > > > > > On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:14 PM, drewB wrote: > > >> Occasionally, I find myself in a situation where I want to have a > >> mock > >> obj returned if a method is called with a particular argument but > >> handled normally otherwise. For example, lets say I have a Model > >> named User and I am specing a controller that sends messages from one > >> user to another. When User.find is called for the user who is making > >> the request I want it to run normally but when User.find is called > >> for > >> the receiver I want it to return a mocked obj. In this case, I can > >> do > >> something like (http://gist.github.com/352305): > > >> user = mock_model(User) > >> User.stub!(:find).at_least(1).and_return do |id| > >> if id == mock_user.id.to_s > >> user > >> else > >> User.find_by_id(id) > >> end > >> end > > >> If I didn't have another method that allowed me to find a User by > >> it's > >> id this won't work. > > >> Is there an easier way to accomplish this? > > > Not really. When you stub a method, the framework overrides that > > method with its own implementation. There's no mechanism in place to > > say "pass the message onto the real object if it doesn't have the > > arguments I'm interested in." I'm not sure of any framework that > > does that. Maybe RR, but I'm not sure. > > > Good luck. > > David > > I can't help but chime in here that I would be pretty irritated to > come across a test that mixed up using mocks and real objects, > especially when they're the same class. Can you not use a mock for the > other instance of User too? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > rspec-us...@rubyforge.org > >http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > cheers, > Matt > > http://mattwynne.net > +447974 430184 > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-us...@rubyforge.orghttp://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
